Screenplay
The story focuses on a group of Vietnamese people struggling to work and study in Russia in the 90's. Nguyet is a talented ballet dancer whose marriage suffers from the loss of her daughter and financial difficulties. She decides to go to Russia with her friends to find jobs helping her send money to the family and continue her passion for ballet. But a horrible succession of tragedies in the foreign land turns her life into a grueling nightmare.
Script
Editor
The movie chronicles a state-owned theatre troupe's struggle to survive both artistically and financially. The actors and actresses have to support themselves with odd jobs ranging from selling food and drinks on the streets to dancing at bars to doing commercials. Then comes a great play, written and directed by Teacher Nguyen Dinh, a veteran playwright, and former troupe mentor. The play promises to bring the group everything they need: inspiring work, state funding, festival prizes, and fame. But the rising tension between lead actress Kim Ha and her womanizing co-star Van Hung due to their troubled past relationship threatens to tear the play apart.
Writer
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.
