Nguyễn Mạnh Hà

The film recreates the situation as the struggle against French colonialism from 1945 to 1954. Tam is a young woman who plays Vietnamese traditional one-string zither and sings Xam folk songs. After helping a revolutionary soldier, her grandfather is shot dead by the enemy. Tam follows the revolutionary path, taking on the mission to Con Dao Island as a doctor to treat prisoners and work with the revolutionary organization.

The film is set in the winter-spring battle that lasted 60 days and nights from late 1946 to early 1947 in Hanoi, the story follows the militiaman Van Dan and his love story with the piano-loving lady Thuc Huong. When others had evacuated to the war zone, they decided to defend the capital that had been devastated by bombs and bullets, despite the dangers that awaited them.

Constantly rejected by studios for proposing unrealistic stories, an aspiring romcom screenwriter ventures to test out the scenarios of her newest script on a grumpy studio executive.