Nam and Việt are coal miners. Nam wants a different future and hires someone to smuggle him to the western world. Before leaving, Nam goes on a journey with Việt and his mother, who claims that Nam’s father, a northern Vietnamese soldier, calls out in her dreams to find his missing body.

Tending to still-open wounds left by the Vietnam War, Minh Quý Trương’s transfixing and redolent film excavates spectral histories, once buried under the sands of time. Lighting up the darkest pits of the earth, coruscating touches between furtive lovers burn with the fieriness of queer passions.