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Film of Nguyen Huy Thiep's controversial story about a general who, after devoting his life to the communist cause, retires, only to find that his household is in disarray, his grown children money-grubbing, and Vietnamese society far from the rosy picture of equality he'd imagined he'd helped make it.
Upon meeting a young Vietnamese soldier during his brief stay in the Lao mountains, a woman begins recalling to her daughter episodes of her life ever since she had to leave Northwest Vietnam in 1952, including her fateful encounter with a Lao mother.
After the liberation of the South, Cong volunteers to work at a pepper farm on the island. The members of the farm are elements with a rogue past, led by Dinh, who always disturb the peace and order on the farm.
