Thanh Vi

Hanh is a dutiful wife and school teacher in a rural Vietnamese village who appears to enjoy a happy marriage. Childless, she insists her husband Phoung, the local school headmaster, take a second wife to bear him a baby. But in the small village, their secret is impossible to keep for long.

A family living in poverty faces financial difficulties while striving to educate their daughters. The mother resorts to extraordinary measures to procure the traditional silk dresses needed for her kids to attend school.

Acclaimed for her outstanding beauty and intellect, Bạch Cúc is thought to have a lavish and glamourous life awaiting her in the future, but instead gets married off to the hedonistic, good-for-nothing heir of a wealthy landlord family. Refusing to tolerate the constant abuse wreak upon herself and other servants in estate, Bạch Cúc joins the Vietminh, and begins her double life operating an intricate intelligence network.

At the age of 17, Luu is raped by her master. When the young girl falls pregnant and gossips arise in the master’s social circle, he strips her family of their land and banishes them from the estate. Left with little means to support themselves, the family moves to Bac Lieu with Cu, the kind-hearted farmer who marries Luu, and tries to foster a new life here, though remnants of the past is bound to return one day.