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Conflict among the mother-daughter duo arises when Jessca embarks on a quest to find a home that once belonged to her mother’s family during pre-war Vietnam. Kim (Jessca’s mother), happy in her new but precarious position in America, fights to stay stateside. As their desires cause them to grow apart they are faced with old myths about the motherland, depicted in a public-broadcasting television show. With a cast consisting only of two Vietnamese-American women re-enacting and satirizing scenes from celebrated Vietnam War films while depicting a diasporic reality, this movie takes a closer look at what has been lost in war, what we find in the rubble, and how to hold on to what remains.


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  • Year
    2024
  • Runtime
    92 minutes
  • Language
    English, Vietnamese
  • Country
    USA, Canada, Vietnam
  • Director
    Van Tran Nguyen, Alex Derwick
  • Screenwriter
    Van Tran Nguyen, Alex Derwick
  • Producer
    Paula Fox Derwick
  • Cinematographer
    EP Press
  • Editor
    Alex Derwick