

On a festive spring day in 1940, two young quan họ singers fall in love. But their relationship is soon ruthlessly disrupted by class injustices, imposed upon both—and many other Vietnamese—by the ongoing French colonial rule and the looming Japanese occupation.

Như Quỳnh
Nết

Vũ Tự Lẫm
Chi

Vũ Đình Thân
An

Cao Khương
Bình

Kim Xuân
Nết (20 years later)
Thi-Loan Nguyen
Nhung
Minh Trâm
Nết's Mother
Hoàng Mạnh Sinh
Nết's Uncle
Nguyễn Ninh
Bình's Father
Nguyễn Thị Ngải
Quan họ Big Sister