The main character in the film is a real person in history - the hero of the Vietnamese people's army, Cu Chinh Lan, set in the middle of the resistance war against the French (circa 1951) on the battlefield in North Vietnam.
A young girl searches for her father, a soldier in the PAVN, after her mother and sister are killed during Christmas Bombings.
The sacrifice of a mother to protect the soldiers of Liberation Army of South Vietnam during the war against US imperialism
Vietnamese guerrillas move into a village adjoining a French/US airstrip and recruit locals to help them bring it down.