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A roundabout survey of 30 years of Vietnamese history, veteran director Dang Nhat Minh's The Season of Guavas is the story of Hoa (Bui Bai Binh), a young man whose brain went slightly soft after he took a fall as a child. He is taken care of by his sister (Nguyen Lan Huong) and is allowed to stay in his state-requisitioned boyhood home by a generous student (Pham Thu Thuy). After the student's father kicks him out of the house, Hoa is befriended by a peasant girl (Le Thi Huong Thao) who takes him under her wing.