Vietnam Saga

After the last American troops leave Vietnam, siblings Anh, Thanh, and Minh begin a perilous journey to Hong Kong with the promise that their parents and younger siblings will soon follow. But when tragedy strikes, the three children are left orphaned, and sixteen-year-old Anh becomes the caretaker for her two younger brothers overnight. In the years that follow, Anh and her brothers resettle in the UK and confront their new identities as refugees, first in camps and resettlement centers and then, later, in a London plagued by social inequality and anti-immigrant sentiment.

Un paese in guerra. Una famiglia divisa. Una storia indimenticabile di coraggio e speranza. Dal loro rifugio sulle montagne, la piccola Huong e sua nonna Dieu Lan sentono il rombo dei bombardieri americani e scorgono il bagliore degli incendi che stanno devastando Hanoi. Fino a quel momento, per Huong la guerra è stata l'ombra che ha risucchiato i suoi genitori, e adesso quell'ombra sta avvolgendo anche lei e la nonna. Tornate in città, scoprono che la loro casa è completamente distrutta, eppure non si scoraggiano e decidono di ricostruirla, mattone dopo mattone.

Billy Flynn always wanted to fly. An attractive young man, a patriot, he is also an artist with pencil and paint and has an abiding affinity for nature. It's 1970 and he cannot resist the call to serve in Vietnam. A year later he is the only survivor when his helicopter is shot down. A Catalog of Birds is the story of a family and a community confronted with a loss of innocence and wounds that may never heal. The legacy of war and its destruction of nature is seared onto the memories of a small American town.