Rob Allen, a young American Navy officer, arrives in Vietnam, a country he knows little about, seeking to learn more about its people and culture. He is assigned to a ship that will become a modern version of a 19th-century Mississippi showboat, nicknamed the Mekong Belle.Its mission is to make music, not war.
Melanie Marquis (aka Tran Vi Gian) was born in Vietnam, orphaned as a child, and then educated in France by the French woman living in Vietnam...