Set in a small village in Vientiane Province in the early 1970s. Pathet Lao troops have gained the upper hand over the US-backed Royal Laotian army. The government wants to use the village as a base for a counter-offensive. Bua Deng (Somchit) is a village girl whose boyfriend has run off to join the Pathet Lao. Her mother forces her to marry a capitalist, but her boyfriend and his guerrillas return to liberate the village and rescue Bua Deng from her lecherous stepfather.