Nostalgia for Countryland
(Thuong nho dong quê)

Ngu’s husband has left wife, mother and village to try and make a better living elsewhere. Every day, Ngu works with her young brother-in-law, Nham, who is seventeen and passionate about poetry, to whom she feels ever more attached. Old enough to do his military service, he will soon leave in his turn. One day Nham meets a beautiful, refined woman, Quyen, who has returned to her motherland after years of removal and now must negotiate with the reality of idealised memories and the woman she has become. The fragility of love and the strength of desire. JB