Binh is a South Vietnamese soldier whose wife Nga turns to a life of prostitution upon Binh's M.I.A. classification. When Binh does return, he finds it impossible to forgive the repentant Nga. The couple's doomed future continues, as Binh joins the Vietnamese Special Forces and a friend (Le Cung Bac) struggles to reunite the two, in this moody drama about the concepts of love, war, sex, and forgiveness.