Vũ Minh Nghĩa is a graduate of the University of Theatre and Cinema in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam. He is currently furthering his studies in film criticism.
A modern tale of Kafka in Vietnam – a country in the middle of a transformation. The film feels like a piece of cultural news with daily events: a wedding, traffic congestion, a robbery, a mystical metamorphosis and a love story.
While going through a midlife crisis with a nagging wife and dying mother-in-law, Hien discovers he has a tumour. He then tries to break free from the mundane and strives for a different life.