Hang is a young woman contemplating the enforcement of her culture's overbearing honor code while traveling back to Moscow on her way back to Vietnam after traveling. As she travels and thinks about the world more broadly, she realizes that her family's sense of honor is dysfunctional. She thinks through old family stories, the most important of which is the story of her mother abandoning her to defend her brother even though her brother was doing something morally wrong.
She arrives in Russia and waits for her next shuttle to Vietnam. While sitting around, she sees a group of Japanese friends who walk by laughing and playing. She wonders what life is like outside of the stern severity of her culture. She longs to be Japanese.
Suddenly she makes herself a promise: She will never compromise on her own happiness. She will follow her bliss in life, and if her family should try and stand in her way (which they will) she elects to support and love herself regardless, to persevere in living the life she feels called to live. She decides that this is true honor, to make the most of her life, instead of just doing what she is told to do all the time and being shamed into compliance.
