After the war ends, Luy returns home and is now assigned as Commune Secretary of his coastal village. However, his wife is now wedded to Son, a soldier of the formerRepublic of Vietnam regime.

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.

No one can understand why a successful and seemingly happily married actress killed herself, but some think that it has to do with what happened to her during the war.