Director: Nguyen Thanh Van
Screenplay: Nguyen Quang Lap based upon Huu Phuong's book
Cinematographer: Nguyen Duc Viet
Editing: Nguyen Viet Huong
Sound: Tran Kim Thing
Music: Pho Duc Phuong
Cast.:: Mai Hoa, Hong Anh, Don Duong, Cong Ninh, Tran Thi Be, Lan Ha
Production: Studio de la fiction du Vietnam
Year: 1999
35 mm, color, 90 min,
OV Vietnamese with French subtitles
Unreleased
With kind support of the Vietnam Cultural Center of Paris
In 1975, after the end of the war and the reunification of Vietnam, Canh goes back to his native sea-side village in the center of the country, twenty years after he left. He finds his wife Thao who patiently waited for him. However, nothing can be the same anymore since Cahn married another woman in the North with whom he had a daughter, now an adolescent. His daughter and second wife Tam come to see him. Canh, his two wives and his daughter live under the same roof. It is a delicate situation and Thao, out of love for her husband, gets three train tickets so that he may go back to North with his new wife and daughter. Whatever decision Cahn will take, one of his two wives will be unhappy.
As in all conflicts, this interminable war had material consequences, as well as human inextricable situations, as this one for example.
