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Lan and her daughter Thu live in a lowland area in the middle of the Red river delta. Their typical day’s work includes going to the Long Bien Market very early in the morning to buy wholesale groceries and resell them back in a local market later during the day. Thu’s mother falls in love with a driver, a relation that has no future. However, she loves him so much that she does not make wise decisions and thus her business is operating at a loss. Thu tries to help her mother to make both ends meet. She longs for her mother’s affection and in order to make up for such a loss of love from her mother, she devotes her affection to a close classmate, who she wants to be her son. Like Thu, Dang lacks mother’s love as he is an orphan. With a strong personality, sense of responsibility, and love, Thu successfully convinces Dang to consider her as his mother with the best heart.

Em 1952 Saigon está em plena guerra, envolvida na luta pela libertação do local do domínio francês. É nesta época que chega Alden Pyle (Brendan Fraser), um agente da CIA idealista que é enviado para ajudar as forças locais. Lá ele conhece Thomas Fowler (Michael Caine), um veterano correspondente do jornal London Times, que lhe apresenta Phuong (Do Thi Hai Yen), uma bela vietnamita com quem está envolvido. Logo Pyle também se envolve com Phuong, criando um triângulo amoroso que traz uma série de revelações à tona.

Trong, a self-proclaimed king of a garbage dump, falls in love with the poor flower seller Thuy.