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Elle is a young entrepreneur who wants to lead her grandmother Margot's fashion house into a new era. She is in a relationship with Thilo, the son of an influential Hamburg family. After Elle's grandmother receives anonymous threats, Ben, who has been in prison, is assigned as her bodyguard. Elle is torn between Thilo and Ben. As Elle delves deeper into Ben's world, she learns secrets about Thilo that could jeopardize her grandmother's life's work.
After the sudden death of their parents, under the shock, two teenagers deny the trauma reality. Despite of their sad and cruel destiny, they have to leave school and look for jobs to survive. In this rough and nostalgic reality of a society in wild stages of develop¬ment, they lose their virginity and become adult A strange atmosphere results from the unguided, inert but increasingly desperate young generation as they face the harsh conditions of modern life through passive revolting acts.
Nguyen Phuong Linh’s Memory of the Blind Elephant follows the social and geographic transformation of the ex-colonial rubber plantations in Central and Southern Vietnam. The rubber trees, human beings, animals and land all bear the quiet evidence of a complex history.
