A Vietnamese near-centenarian living in New Orleans reminisces on wars he experienced, ideas he held, and countries he saw during the 20th century with the help of the ghost of an old friend: Ho Chi Minh.

A veteran tells his acquaintance about his darkest memories as a solider the Vietnam War.

After killing a lost American soldier, a Vietnamese man discovers similarities between the two of them and struggles to come to terms with his hasty decision.

Speaking of his past experiences, a Vietnam War veteran describes the darker, unspoken details of life as a soldier that people often overlook.

When ghosts interfere with an Indonesian man's tour group, the country's political strife comes to light, Americans wind up dead, and the man's past can no longer be avoided.

A man picks up his wife's grandfather from the airport after years of separation. However, the man must comfort his wife when she realizes her grandfather's memory is failing and he no longer recognizes her.

To hear his friends and readers tell it, an American war correspondent based in Saigon is losing touch with reality. But to him, the opposite is true. Through studies of the Vietnamese people and fantastical letters to his children, he alternately tries to confront and embrace the world as it truly is.

Two soldiers recount their encounter with a battalion of ghost soldiers defending them in the WWI trenches.

A government official in futuristic all-powerful Communist Vietnam accidentally takes drugs which counteract the drugs poisoning the public water. With his cleared senses, he sees that the Party Leader is not human or machine, but God.

In the lively afterlife, filled with fish spas and jovial friends, the Mrs. Lim is given a second chance to live. That changes when she receives a gift from her daughter.