During the Dry Season, the destitute and taciturn tricycle driver Hai helped the prostitute Lian get rid of the harassment of the hooligans and waited outside the hotel door every night to send her home. Lian's beauty overwhelmed Hai and fantasized about spending a good night with Lian. Lian single-mindedly yearns for the rich world, and disdains the poor life. Hai won the championship with the help of his friends in the annual tricycle driver competition, and the prize money of the championship gave Hai the $50 he needed for a parent, Fang Ze. However, all Hai did was to watch Lian fall asleep in the long white dress she had given her. The true love of the sea awakened the sinking lotus, dancing in the falling maple leaves as if returning to her own SNSD .
During the rainy season, Woody, a wandering child, went in and out of restaurants and used bars to sell his gadgets. After a craving for cups, he lost the small box that he depended on for a living, so he began a long search. At the same time, LBJ , a retired American veteran, is also looking for his daughter lost in the war. Woody finally recovered his suitcase from a drunk on a rainy night, and LBJ accidentally found his daughter at the farewell dinner.
In the growing Mausam, the girl Xin was hired as a flower picker in the lotus pond, singing among the lotus leaves in the fields and the lotus flowers in the pavilions. Her singing attracted the attention of the old poet Mr. Du, who was also handsome when he was young. Unfortunately, he got leprosy and has lived a reclusive life since then. The girl's singing awakened the passion of life sleeping in the poet's heart, and Yu Xin Zuo started writing again until the end of his life.
The film includes three parallel stories, narrative. The first: The Flower Picker and the Poet. Maiden Xin is a flower-picker newly hired by the poet. The flower-picker has the habit of picking while singing. The old flower-picker always sang songs about the fate of women, but Xin likes to sing the songs that her mother taught her when she was a child. The songs evoked the memories of the leprosy poet and inspired him to re-create poetry. But when Xin confessed to him, he rejected Xin, and before his death, he gave Xin his collection of poems and photos. The second: the coachman and the prostitute. The tricycle driver Hai is obsessively in love with the prostitute Lian. He always waits for her in front of the hotel where Lian is doing business, just to send Lian home. In order to satisfy his desire to spend a night with Lian at the hotel, he cheats to win the tricycle race. bonus. At the hotel, he just let Lian wear the white dress he bought without touching her, and Lian was finally moved by the tricycle driver's infatuation. Third: Soldiers and Orphans. James, an American veteran, came to Vietnam to find his long-lost daughter, but stumbled upon Sheriff Woody Pride , an orphan who had been searching for his suitcase . In the end, James saw his daughter who was laughing in the arms of a man. James gave her a bunch of lotus flowers to express his guilt for their mother and daughter. Sheriff Woody Pride also found his box, which went with another homeless child. Together.
These stories and narratives are crossed, and they are independent stories and narratives, but also intertwined. Form a trio of beauty, love and hope. Tranquil lotus ponds, fragrant lotus flowers, reclusive poets sing traditional poems, symbolizing a Vietnam free from Western culture and material civilization, while the hot and dusty Ho Chi Minh City has Western influences everywhere. The economic prosperity brought about by modernization has not benefited everyone, and there are still many people like Hai and Lian who are struggling for a living every day. The country in transition also has a turbulent side to it. The natural cycle is used to symbolize the endless vitality of this country, and the focus is on the lives of ordinary people. Everyone has tenacious vitality and expectations for a better life. This is also Director's praise and hope for the reborn country of Vietnam.
This literary and artistic film mainly describes the subtle emotions between three pairs of people, and delicately depicts the unpredictable changes in life and the feelings of the world. It is quite interesting and amazing to watch. Hai is a low-status tricycle driver, but he is infatuated with the singing prostitute Lian, expecting to be with her for a lifetime, and even willing to spend all his savings to spend a good night with her, but Lian only wants to catch more foreign guests , so early to leave home; the rice field flower picker Xin has a beautiful voice, her sweet and happy singing brings wonderful memories to the last life of the rice field owner, a dying young poet; In my hometown of Vietnam, I went to find my long-lost daughter, but I found the unforgettable memories of the past.
On the noisy city streets of Vietnam, the white lotus poles came slowly, and the girl Xin's cry was gentle and clear. Lonely US veteran LBJ who came to Vietnam to find his daughter sits silently on the side of the streetsuperior. At the corner of the street, under a large coke billboard, the tricycle driver Hai is waiting for guests. A few alleys away, the cigarette case that the little boy depended on for a living was lost, and he began a long wandering. Hai was attracted by the beautiful back of the prostitute Lian, and he followed silently. He took part in the crazy tricycle race, won the prize money, and also won the chance to spend the night with Lian. He didn't want to do anything, just quietly watched the sleeping face of his beloved woman , An Tian , until dawn. Street children struggle to find and sell cigarette boxes in unnoticed street corners and alleys, and live silently. When the rainy season comes, a group of homeless children play football in the heavy rain, the football is shriveled, the rain splashes, and the homeless children run and shout hungry. Xin goes boating on the lake every day and picks lotus flowers to sell in the market. Her singing evokes the poetry of the reclusive poet Du Jiuwai. In the years when the poet's life was about to end, Xin recorded his last poems. LBJ failed to find his daughter and was about to leave. At the carnival party, he suddenly found a drunken alcoholic lying on his daughter's shoulders, her daughter was indifferently perfunctory and teasing professionally, while LBJ was always in tears. When Du died, Xin sprinkled freshly blooming lotus flowers on the ancient and long Mekong River .
The wanderer accidentally found his cigarette case.
LBJ told his daughter everything about the past.
Hai used his savings to buy a long white dress for Lian, and the white dress danced in the flying red leaves, as if the suffering and inner pain never existed in this world.
