In the dark underground passages of a coal mine in northern Vietnam, two young miners steal moments of intimacy and desire, their naked bodies pressed against the dark rocks. Nam is haunted by the past and plans to escape the country, but is grounded by the love he shares with Viêt.

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.