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Prologue | Do We Get to Win This Time?

The Big Picture

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Laley Hayslip's Journey From Vietnam to America

Vietnam often felt like a hand-me-down to those of us who came of age in the 80s and early 90s. Laley Hayslip's tumultuous journey from Vietnam to America was depicted in Oliver Stone's 1993 film Heaven and Earth. We are a human being. We fight for our country, our motherland, our freedom. Wasn't that the same thing? But films are not history lessons. And when you're making a movie about Vietnam, a painful conflict that's still being debated today, you're dealing with multiple perspectives, multiple truths.

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