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Teenager
Thieu Thi Tao joined the revolutionary movement
protesting the regime of the American-installed
President Diem. Arrested for her activities, she
spent seven years as a political prisoner in the
infamous "tiger cages" where she was
beaten, and tortured. When the North Vietnamese
took Saigon in 1975, she felt vindicated - her
years of imprisonment were a small price to pay
for a united Vietnam. Now the head of a shrimp
cooperative, Tao confronts a new enemy: greed,
corruption and bureaucracy.
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