2002 Saigon, Vietnam, while her mother is expecting their second child, young Thi befriends club waitress Ngoc who has just moved into their family′s house as a tenant. As their friendship grows, she finds out that Ngoc is an undisclosed sex worker. Meanwhile, the story is silently observed by an art book featuring female nudes by Polish painter Tamara de Lempicka, stolen from a bookstore.

Director's Bio: Nguyễn Lương Hằng (aka Hang Luong Nguyen) is an award-winning writer-director, producer, and educator from Ho Chi Minh City interested in exploring the Vietnamese female identity in global and familial contexts. Her debut short The Story of Us (2014) screened at the 2016 Focus on Asia Fukuoka FF. She then served as producer for Trinh Dinh Le Minh's acclaimed debut feature Goodbye Mother (2019), one of the first LGBTQ films from Vietnam to participate in the international cinematic scene, selected by prestigious festivals in Busan, Hawaii, and Toronto before its distribution on Netflix Vietnam. Her sophomore short, Supermarket Affairs (2022), screened at Oscar-qualifying festivals including Palm Springs ShortFest, Nashville FF, and Cinequest; winning several awards. She received an MFA in Film & Media Production at the University of Texas at Austin with support from the Fulbright Program.