In a time of chaos and conflicts, a talented musician falls in love with an upper-class royal mandarin.

A hard up historian lives happily with his newly-wed wife and her child from her previous husband. But as he becomes more successful and financially stable, the family relationships begin to fracture.

The two villagers are in a deep dispute which stops all villagers loving people from the other. Couples of two village died for love and they claimed war to each other lots of time. But a regular situation happened when French came, they went invading those remote villages and made people work for them. A girl had been raped and murdered by a French leader, so will two villages come to co-operation? Or they will fight a lone to thư enemy, the most dangerous enemy they have met in their lives?

A poor farmer leaves his home to become a miner, hoping to strike it rich in the new gold rush.

While awaiting the return of her husband from the war to no avail, a woman gradually finds herself charmed by a newly arrived engineer.

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.

One of the three collaborated movies by Trinh Cong Son (songwriter), Hong Sen (director), and Nguyen Quang Sang (novelist). The other two are "Mùa Gió Chướng" and "Cánh Đồng Hoang".

The film is set in the winter-spring battle that lasted 60 days and nights from late 1946 to early 1947 in Hanoi, the story follows the militiaman Van Dan and his love story with the piano-loving lady Thuc Huong. When others had evacuated to the war zone, they decided to defend the capital that had been devastated by bombs and bullets, despite the dangers that awaited them.