In mid-1960s, groups of American paratroopers arrive at a Hmong village near the Vietnam-Laos border. Among the troops are former villagers who collaborated with the French; having returned home , they seek to win over the village’s support.

Dũng, a well-accomplished leader of a platoon, is suddenly sent back to the rear to help the militia transport supplies and ammunitions to the frontlines. He reluctantly heeds his superiors’ order, and soon finds himself acquainted with Nhàn, one of the militia’s most hardworking members.

After the war, a young man reuniting with his beloved must deal with the fact that she has gone insane.

Vietnamese guerrillas move into a village adjoining a French/US airstrip and recruit locals to help them bring it down.

At a maternity ward in South Vietnam, a midwife adopts three orphaned children after their mothers, undercover Communist spies, go missing or die in action.

The young & poor struggle to get by in the big city.

A government minister from Hanoi has a car accident on the way to a wedding in a remote village. The county hospital does not have the authority to operate on a minister. The county commissioner would like the operation done in the county for the prestige it would bring, but will not authorize it without the approval of the whole county committee. The hospital director has filled his quota, so does not want to take the risk of an operation. Since a telephone call to Hanoi has to be booked two days in advance, the minister's wife cannot be contacted, nor can a helicopter be arranged to move the minister to Hanoi.

Two pilots and their beloveds, all of whom are close friends, try to navigate their lives separate from one another as the men transition to combat.

A woman running from her past meets a poor farmer who offers to marry her and raise her newborn as his own. After marrying they struggle to make a happy life together as their family grows and the war rages around them.