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.
Đơn Dương
Hai
Nguyễn Thị Ngọc Hiệp
Kien An
Diep Bui
Lan
Huu Duoc Nguyen
Woody
Diễm Kiều
Singing Lotus Woman
Harvey Keitel
James Hager
Lola Guimond
Hager's Daughter
Phát Triệu
Huy, Dao's Headman
Hong Son Le
Binh, Cyclo Driver
Mạnh Cường
Teacher Dao
Hồ Kiểng
Restaurant Owner
Ngo Quang Hai
Man in Taxi with Lan
Hồng Khắc Đào
Parlor Manager
