i could not stop crying through the film, and i am not a crybaby. this case was different because it is the story of the refugees and the people that were left behind. i know it hit me deep down because i finally got to see a beautiful film about the struggles of my parents and grandparents. i hope that everyone else will still feel the impact of this story that is based on true events because it was a very difficult time for all the vietnamese families who lived through the war. my parents have yet to go back to viet nam and this film makes we want to take the journey for them to see their home land which they still love and had to leave behind, although we know it has changed a lot in thirty years. even to this day my parents are reconnecting with people they new in viet nam and they are all over the place, here in southern California, also in northern California, Texas and in new york.