The film explores the theme of war, depicting the extremely harsh realities of people’s lives, interwoven with love stories of young people during wartime.

In post-war Saigon, the son of a prominent police officer befriends a young woman he met in a vehicle accident. But beneath his new girlfriend's irresistible charm and striking beauty lies a menacing secret.

A happy couple is suddenly separated when one of them is arrested on charges of espionage and sent to re-education camp.

A small traveling circus from Hanoi arrives at a village struck down by famine, trying to sell magic and dreams.

A Vietnamese woman from an ethnic minority is grieving over the death of her husband caused by the U.S. bomb. An American fighter pilot is shot down and desperately trying to survive under the U.S. bombing in the jungle where the woman lives.

A young cadre of the state is in the board of a re-education programme for bourgeoisies, but the object of its "rehabilitation" turns out to be her mother-in-law who moved South after 1954.

An undercover spy of the Revolution approaches a ruthless guard at Côn Đảo prison to extract information.

Phụng falls in love with the blind craftsman Hai Cảnh working for her family’s pottery business and marries him. But when she receives her infertility diagnosis, Phụng decides to find another woman who can bear his children.