A mentally challenged man spends his days working as an artist's model and visiting the now-occupied house of his childhood, where his beloved guava tree sits.

Two soldiers are tasked with mailing an urgent letter to a battalion surrounded by the enemies’ forces.

Jasmine brings viewers back to Hanoi of the 2010s. It is the life story of a shoe shine boy, a sidewalk barber, an old teacher who teaches singing to a choir of blind students or or a farmer who works as a maid in Hanoi.…. These fragmented lives form a colorful picture of the life of ordinary Hanoians.

At a rural village where most men have perished in the revolutions against French colonisers, their remaining widows and grieving mothers must bear the brunt of rigid patriarchal expectations placed upon them.

Returning home from their touring opera troupe, actress Lanh has a rendezvous with her now-married former boyfriend, Phong, while leading-lady Xoan is about to be replaced by an understudy because of her pregnancy.

Terminally ill and bedridden, a veteran reminisces about the life and people in her younger days.