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1945, Hanoi. Ho Chi Minh's companions include John Paul Scott, the downed American flyer he rescued, and Trung Minh Chao, the idealistic Vietnamese teenager and member of his resistance forces. Ho has just declared independence from France. In the midst of the giddy celebration, J. Smith, the US State Department representative, delivers word that the US will support France's colonial claim instead. All react in shock and anger; Ho prophesies the thirty years of war that will ensue, first against the French and then the Americans; Scott realizes he will have to fight the people who saved his life; Smith is caught between the message she must deliver and the situation she finds; and Trung insists that victory will be the outcome.
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