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The Musical is situated within Saigon during the last weeks of the
Vietnam war, in April 1975. In a nightclub the young GI Chris meets
the 17 year old girl Kim. They fall in love with each other, but
their luck is only to last a short time. Chris had to leave the city
in a hurry, in a Helicopter, leaving Kim behind. Kim remained in
Saigon without any message from him.
Three years pass by. In the United States Chris marries an American girl called Ellen, and builds his life anew, but he cannot forget Kim. Kim and the child she bore, live under the Dictator Ho Chi Minh's poor rule. All the time she still believes on the return of her Chris, who knows nothing of his son, and refuses the affection of Officer Thuy, to whom she was promsied as his wife, since her childhood. As Thuy, in a rage, tried to kill Kim's small son Tam, she shot him. She fleed to her brother in Bangkok. A short time later Chris heard from a friend, that he had a child by Kim, and decided to find them. Together with his wife, they flew to Thailand to see his child. Overjoyed, Kim discovers of arrival of Chris and goes immediately to his hotel to meet him. There she doesn't meet Chris, but his wife Ellen, and discovers the truth about his new life in America. |
