Daughter From Danang cuts between mother and daughter as the two recall the pain of their separation since 1975, with the end of the war in Vietnam imminent. Mai Thi Kim, a poor, young Vietnamese woman, sent her seven-year-old daughter to America as part of a controversial evacuation program known as Operation Babylift. The film retraces Hiep's journey from Vietnam to Pulaski, Tennessee, where she is adopted by a single woman and renamed Heidi. Her new hometown has few Asian residents and a history of black-white racial tension. Heidi's mother convinces the little girl to conceal her Vietnamese heritage and became "101%" American. In 1997, Heidi decides to return to Vietnam in search of her mother, and the filmmakers follow her. Both women have enormous expectations of their reunion. (...) In intimate, beautifully shot sequences in Danang, the film follows mother and daughter over the course of their one-week reunion. And in painful, difficult scenes, viewers see the women's many hopes and expectations dashed as it becomes apparent that the cultural gulf between them is much larger than either ever imagined. In a final, wrenching confrontation, the gap seems unbridgeable.