The Trip Back to Hometown with My Parents

Born in Hải Phòng in northern Vietnam, the filmmaker's father fled south as a reckless teenager and settled in Đà Nẵng, where he met his wife and raised eight children. War and poverty kept him from returning home for decades; when he finally went back in 1983, his mother was gone and his father was blind. Now 81 and frail, he makes one final journey to Hải Phòng to bring the family ancestral altar to Đà Nẵng, where it will rest with the eldest son and be cared for by his descendants.