After 5 weeks in Hanoi conducting my research and watching films on a daily basis, I headed to Ho Chi Minh City for 10 days, with interviews and meetings lined up. I also planned to meet some people I knew from London who were in Ho Chi Minh at the same time. One such person was the beautiful and charismatic actor Linh Dan Pham, whom I met back in 2019, the same year I did my initial research in Vietnam for my MA in film programming and curating. Linh-Dan had been cast as the mother in the first British-Vietnamese UK stage production Summer Rolls by Tuyen Do and produced by me.