Nguyet is an orphaned child living with her grandma in a seaside village of devout Catholics. When the village becomes a battlefield, the grandma, enraged by the fact her son died due to Vietcong mine traps, begins throwing grenades against the winning Vietcong soldiers. To ensure a strategical victory, Dung, a young combatant, is deployed to gun down the old woman.

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.

Binh is a South Vietnamese soldier whose wife Nga turns to a life of prostitution after Binh is classified as missing. When Binh does return, he finds it impossible to forgive the repentant Nga. The couple's doomed future continues, as Binh joins the Vietnamese Special Forces and a friend struggles to reunite the two.

The year 1963 drags on heavily. Rumors about the US-backed coup are spreading. Ngo Dinh Diem's ​​government continues to suffer from a severe loss of popularity that is still worsening. Two lots of trafficked drugs from the Golden Triangle to South Vietnam have vanished into thin air. Luan sets out on what may be his final collaboration with Ngo Dinh Nhu.

As they enter the final year in high school, a group of friends encounter a series of personal issues.

In a mountainous village, a young girl with a strange birthmark is accused of being the devil incarnate and banished from society.

A police officer receives a worn-out and traumatised woman who begs him to take actions against a ruthless man that ruined her life, and only gives his moniker, Tín Mã Nàm, meaning “crazy horse” in Cantonese. As the officer sets out to search for Tín Mã Nàm, a network of intricate crimes, espionage and bloody murders beyond his imagination begins to unfold.

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.

In post-war Vietnam, a talented piano student and doctor in training begin a doomed love affair.