Nguyen Ma

An, an overseas student, returns to Vietnam to attend her boyfriend’s family death anniversary ceremony. Faced with murmuring voices in the middle of the night and overly intimate gestures from her boyfriend’s family, An decides she must leave this house immediately.

In a middle-class apartment, a woman quietly eats her dinner alone, while her son is having a night out with his friends. A phone call between them gradually reveals the growing emotional distance that has separated them, with no words of love and affection spoken. Yet something compels the son to turn back and return home.