Due to the name, I've wanted to see this for well over a decade. I know its an artsy fartsy name, but something about it appeals to me. TSoGP is not a movie for everyone. For the first hour and twenty minutes of its hour and forty minute runtime, there is almost no dialogue, and little hint of a plot. Yet more movies should be made like TSoGP in the sense that it conveys such overwhelming positivity and beauty. The movie is about a poor village girl in early 1950s Vietnam named Mui, who comes to Saigon to work for a well off family of cloth sellers. On the surface the family appears to have it all, but knowing the details of their lives reveals they suffer as much or more than anyone. We watch the family through Mui's eyes and Mui pays very close attention to not just them but to the nature around her as well. She is seemingly most pleased by the ordinary, such as a single ant transporting his food, or the milk of a papaya stem dripping onto a leaf. She works hard and she works well. Outside of the older servant she learns from, the youngest son that torments her in childish ways usually involving lizards or farting, and the mother who comes to view her as something of a daughter, much the rest of the family doesn't seem to notice her at all. In the final act of the movie we skip 10 years ahead and the family is down on its luck and must send her away, but she is hired by the family of a boy she has had a distant love for since they were both children. He is rich, a pianist, speaks French, and has a high class fiancée. But eventually despite their separate roots, he comes to love Mui much like the viewer has. It is a whirlwind romance to end the film. Its probably not believable any more than Cinderella or Pretty Woman. But we are still happy for Mui in the end. Good things happen to good people in this world. And that's wonderful.