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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, and a child trinket seller loses his traveling case.

An inspector interrogates three men connected to a famous singer after her sudden mysterious death and finds out the secrets behind her seemingly glamourous life.

In 1960s South Vietnam, an undercover agent slowly works his way up through the ranks of Ngô Đình Diệm's administration to become one of its most prominent advisors