Hoa Cỏ May

At a rural village where most men have perished in the revolutions against French colonisers, their remaining widows and grieving mothers must bear the brunt of rigid patriarchal expectations placed upon them.

After the war, a soldier returns to his hometown. Far from his expectations of peace and happiness, the village is rife with turbulence, misogyny and outdated customs.

Don Duong stars as a truck driver who falls in love with a young student girl in a roadside border canteen. Unsure about him, she returns to school but finally decides to throw in her lot with him. This decision forms the gambling motif in the film, a decision which causes her grief, when she later becomes the subject of his gamble.

After many years, Nam still longs for his first love. He comes back to Da Lat with his 3 sons in order to find her.

Mai is an art student who is invited to act in a movie set in the war. Along with acting and studying, she is in the midst of the complexities of her family background, social life and personal ambitions. Powerful, free-spirited, rebellious, struggling and thoughtful, Forgive Me is like a chorus of young people living in the early 90s in Hanoi.

Based on a true story of 10 young women, who volunteered to help with logistic activities at Đồng Lộc junction, a strategic junction of Ho Chi Minh trail during the Vietnam War.