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Synopsis

The residents of Ho Chi Minh City face modernization amid widespread poverty. A retired American Marine arrives on a search for his daughter, whom he abandoned at the end of the Vietnam War. Elsewhere, a cyclo driver falls for a troubled prostitute and schemes to raise money so he can spend time with her. Additionally, a young women begins harvesting lotuses for a writer suffering from leprosy, an

Year1999
CountryUnited States
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Vietnam War legacy · urban modernization · poverty and class struggle · redemption and abandonment · cross-cultural romance