Cast:Damien Nguyen, Bai Ling, Thi Hoa Mai, Nick Nolte, Tim Roth, Chapman To, Temuera Morrison, Xuan Phuc Dins, Thu An Nguyen, Ka Duy Pham, Minh Trang Ngo, Dang Quoc Thinh Tran, Thi Kim Xuan Chau, Tang Vu, Thu Anh, Duc Thuan Khuong, Than Kien Nguyen, Be He, Phat Trieu Hoang, Eric Jimenez, Mersing Le Guen, Thi Linh Phoung Nguyen, Viet Trang Ha, Thi Huong Dung Nguyen, Thi Hong Bui, Danh Thau Nguyen, Thi Xuan Thuc Nguyen, Wee Suu Loke, Ganrasha Moorthy, Donh Thi Nguyen
Synopsis
One of the consequences of the U.S.-Viet Nam war was the children of G.I.s by their Viet Namese wives and lovers. For years, women who were involved with U.S. soldiers were social outcasts, treated as collaborators while their children, even when living with grandparents, endured taunts and abuse. This is the story of one such child, Binh, being forced from his village at seventeen years, going to Saigon to find his mother, then trying to escape to the U.S. with his much younger half-brother, Tam, in 1990. The film lingers on the rigors of the voyage: the sampan, the Malaysian detention camps, the illegal refugee ship, and the underground economy with near-slavery in New York City. It then opens up when Binh leaves New York for Houston to find his father.
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