Orphaned at a young age and later abandoned by her godfather, Vân grows up in the care of kind-hearted nuns at a convent on the outskirts of Saigon. With the help of Mother Superior, the young woman leaves the convent upon adulthood and finds work as a governess for the estate of a wealthy industrialist where she again encounters a series of miseries and torments that have once plagued her childhood.
Thẩm Thúy Hằng
Vân
La Thoại Tân
Châu
Xuân Dung
Miên
Trần Quang
Minh
Cao Huynh
Vĩnh
Phương Hồng Ngọc
Vân (lúc nhỏ)
Diễm Kiều
Thiên Kim
Orphaned at a young age and later abandoned by her godfather, Vân grows up in the care of kind-hearted nuns at a convent on the outskirts of Saigon. With the help of Mother Superior, the young woman leaves the convent upon adulthood and finds work as a governess for the estate of a wealthy industrialist where she again encounters a series of miseries and torments that have once plagued her childhood.
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