The girls' artillery company in Ngu Thuy was renowned during the war for sinking five American warships. In 1971, the film Girls of Ngu Thuy was created by Lo Minh and won several prizes. After nearly thirty years, the director returned to Ngu Thuy, revisiting the characters in the film who left an unforgettable impression on his creative life to see them in their present civilian life. Today the women still live in a mixed atmosphere of the present and the past. The waves of the blue sea of Ngu Thuy still lap at the shore while the Ngu Thuy girls' hair has already turned grey. But the new generation has brightly-lit faces. Their laughter mingles with the sound of the lapping waves. The sound of the canon fire has disappeared. They sing songs about youthful love and love for their country.
—Berlinale Forum