Thomas Fowler is a British journalist reporting from 1950's Vietnam (just as the troubles there escalate from France's colonial desperation to America's genocidal idealism), and a man who has lost his passion for the world. Into this cynical and complacent western community arrives young Pyle, a naive and optimistic American medical worker, whose motives are more convoluted than they at first appear. These two men are drawn together by a shared passion for Thomas's mistress, Phoung, a beautiful find out more...