The third feature by acclaimed Vietnamese writer/director Tran Anh Hun🗹g (The Scent Of Green Papaya) revolves around three sisters who meet up on the anniversary of their mother's de𒁃ath in suburban Hanoi. Although the trio work together at the family-run café, each is keeping a secret from the others.

The eldest, Suong (Nguyen Nhu Quynh), a married mother, is🌜 having an affair. Meanwhile,💃 the middle one, Khanh (Le Khanh), has yet to tell her sisters that she is pregnant, while the youngest, Lien (Tran Nu Yen-Khe) has been seeing an architecture student, Hai.

From its impeccably framed opening, in whi🍌ch Lien and Hai wake up to the strains of the Velvet Underground's Pale Blue Eyes, this announces itself as a film of languid beauty. Yet somehow the artiness feels suffocating: it's easier to be distracted by the designer outfits and the scenes of exotic food preparation than feel engrossed in the characters' dilemmas.