As war breaks out in 1950s Vietnam, a British journalist strikes up a friendship with an idealistic American aid worker. However, their shared attraction to a local woman drives the pair apart, while the reporter discovers his new acquaintance is not all he appears to be. Drama based on Graham Greene's novel, starring Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser, Do Thi Hai Yen, Rade Serbedzija and Tzi Ma.

In early 1950s Vietnam, a young American becomes entangled in a dangerous love triangle when he falls for the beautiful mistress of a British journalist. As war is waged around them, the trio sinks deeper into a world of drugs, passion, and betrayal where nothing is as it seems.