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IMPORT DVD FROM SOUTH KOREA - NTSC REGION FREE (PLAYS ON U.S. DVD PLAYERS) - LANGUAGE: ENGLISH - VIETNAMESE - SUBTITLES: ENGLISH, KOREAN, or NONE - ENGLISH AND KOREAN TEXT ON COVER ART It is the new Vietnam. The beautiful old city of Saigon is quickly fading into the neon glare of Western progress, leaving four ordinary people as expatriates in their own country. The young Kien An is a living memory of the old ways. Hired to pick white lotuses for a reclusive ex-poet, her singing reminds him of his youth and inspires him to write again. In the center of the city, Hai, a cyclo driver, enters a race with the hope of winning fifty dollars to spend an evening with an ambitious prostitute he has fallen for. Meanwhile, a street urchin, Woody, who sells trinkets from a suitcase hanging around his neck, meets James Hager (Harvey Keitel, The Piano), an ex-G.I. searching for the daughter he left behind in the war. These haunting stories merge to paint a portrait of a country in transition...a culture which, through a second invasion by its former enemy, will never be the same.