At the very first glance, this film looks like a typical melodrama; but upon looking closer, it is the story of a woman who comes to collapse with no compassion from the world she lives in. The head of a high school, Phuong, is married to a school teacher Hanh, but they are infertile. Hanh looks for a surrogate mother for her and her husband. However, Phuong asks for a fake divorce so he can marry the surrogate and maintain his status position, and Hanh accepts his request. However, Phuong becomes more and more distance from Hanh once he is married to the surrogate, Tham. The director, Vinh Son Nguyen focuses more on how one woman is betrayed and falls slowly to superstition which results in self-destruction than on the cliches of melodrama such as jealousy and conflicts. This whole picture shows how suppressed and unfair Vietnamese society still is to women, as it describes the tragedy of an intelligent woman discriminated by pre-modern values. (KIM Ji-Seok)