| Overview: | In this Oscar-nominated effort, acclaimed director Ahn Hung Tran focuses on the interior life of a 1950s Vietnamese household, as seen through the eyes of Mui, a young servant.
Originally hired to work as a maid in the home of a privileged Saigon family, Mui becomes a substitute daughter to a family that has lost its only girl child. When the father absconds with the family's fortune, Mui's mistress is forced to sell her to a family friend, Khuyen, a man Mui has secretly loved since a child. Unable to speak her desire, Mui shows her forbidden affection in every service she performs for him, and eventually Khuyen takes notice...
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