Asian male teacher in a classroom with adorable Asian children. He leads the children in singing a song about Vietnam.

Cutaway from face of Asian child to large paper map tacked to the wall. Pan out from the map to the Asian kids, mostly girls, in a class sitting around a table writing in their books. Narrator ,unseen, talks about the schools in California where the Asian children re-learn the language and customs of their motherlands which have been forgotten

Southeast Asians sitting on the floor around a low lying table and sharing a meal and drinking tea.

Cutaway to military helicopter taking off from the parking lot of the US Embassy in Saigon. WS of the Embassy building as helicopter flies above

Cutaway busy street corner in the Bay Area of California, a newspaper stand is seen and several Southeast Asian peds walking about.
Reporter walking towards camera introduces the story he's about to tell about a Vietnamese man who fled to the United States with his family after the Vietnam War. He eventually settled in the Bay Area of San Francisco.

Cutaway back to Southeast Asia - shots of people crowded around a bus, saying goodbye. Passengers on the bus at the windows reaching their hands out - woman is seen crying.

The streets of Saigon, people riding. bikes, carrying baskets., little boy turns and looks at camera.
Unseen narrator explains how Hai Nimh hung on there until he found out he would be sent to a "re-education camp."

CU on Hai Nimh explaining how the boat filled with water quickly as he threw life jackets to his family and saved them. He laughingly says the last thing he saw was a little mouse.

CU Nimh talking about trying to forget about leaving his home country. but states more importantly is to focus on today and planning for tomorrow

(Nine years later) Nimh is seen sitting behind an array of computer screens and equipment in his own video arcade game repair store in Virginia

Teenage daughter Kim speaks with unseen interviewer about how she would come home from American school and give her father her history book that he would translate for her

cutaway - Vietnamese people working in a rice paddy in Vietnam. Fade out to a lush mountain range

End - Southeast Asia "Boat People"