Monsoon

Monsoon... is a journey into the hearts and memories of those caught in a certain time in a particular place. Sandy Donaldson has been working for a volunteer organisation in Vietnam for the past four years. As her contract nears it end she is reluctant to leave so she invites her oldest friend Anna to come for a holiday and discover its beautiful tourist destinations. Both girls have unexplored links to this country. Sandys father is a Vietnam vet and Annas mother was a Vietnamese boat person. During their travels they meet Tom an old Australian journalist who covered the war and plans to report on the 40th anniversary of the Battle of Long Tan. It is Tom who tries to persuade Sandys father to return to Long Tan and settle the ghosts that have haunted him for 40 years and suggests that Anna should delve into her mothers past. But the girls are reluctant swept up in their own concerns relationships and a business deal that has the potential to go horribly wrong. However it is the near-blind Buddhist nun living alone in the pagoda atop one of the karsts in Halong Bay who might hold the key.