Saigon

Vietnam's heady tropical landscape captivates fifteen-year-old Joseph Sherman on a colonial hunting expedition to Saigon with his family in 1925. He is lured back again and again by his enduring fascination for that beautiful country and for the beguiling mandarin's daughter Lan who he could never forget. Through five haunting decades, Joseph's life becomes deeply enmeshed with Vietnam's war-torn fate until he attempts to salvage something of lasting value as US helicopters flee the falling city of Saigon...