Follows a young cyclo driver on his poverty-driven descent into criminality in modern-day Ho Chi Minh City. The boy's struggles to scratch out a living for his two sisters and grandfather in the mean streets of the city lead to petty crime on behalf of a mysterious Madame from whom he rents his cyclo.

Le Van Loc
as Cyclo

Tony Leung Chiu-wai
as Poet

Như Quỳnh
as Madam

Hoàng Phúc
as Tooth

Ngo Quang Hai
as Knife

Tuyết Ngân
as Happy Woman

Doan Viet Ha
as Sad Woman

Bjuhoang Huy
as Crazy Son

Vo Vinh Phuc
as Cyclo's Friend

Le Kinh Huy
as Grandfather