Follows a young cyclo driver on his poverty-driven descent into criminality in modern-day Ho Chi Minh City. The boy's struggles to scratch out a living for his two sisters and grandfather in the mean streets of the city lead to petty crime on behalf of a mysterious Madame from whom he rents his cyclo.

Crescent moon is a film describing the life of Vietnamese soldiers who were victims of Agent Orange after America intentionally spread the toxic chemical. Not only the soldiers but their family had to suffer from many loss and pain.

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.