SYNOPSIS
Duyen gets married to Hai and she thinks she is happy, but the life of the young couple is soon dotted with flickers of emptiness. Duyen has a girlfriend—Cam, a writer. Older and secretly in love with her and troubled by the vast emptiness brought by Duyen’s marriage. To hide her real feeling—a kind of love deemed immoral by the Vietnamese society, Cam pretends to be tortured by the love for a man named Tho. On a rainy day Cam is ill, heartbroken. Duyen vitits her and Cam asks her to take a letter to Tho. This meeting allows Duyen to discover a man charged with sexual desire and uncover the voids in herself. This is the beginning of a series of plotting jealousies, involving everyone’s feelings and lives and contrasting the established traditional morality.