UNITED KINGDOM · 2019
Monsoon
Hong Khaou
diaspora and displacement
return to homeland
cultural alienation
memory and identity
parental legacy
belonging and estrangement
Synopsis
Kit can’t remember much of his native Vietnam. When he returns to the Land of the Golden Star for the first time in over thirty years, he takes in his local surroundings as any Western tourist would, and the environment is as exotic as the language is incomprehensible. The aim of Kit’s travels – to find a place to scatter his parents’ ashes – thus becomes part of a journey back to his roots and to
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