Breakaway Heart Screenplay

A young Vietnamese girl cries in shock as she watches her mother fall to her death in the streets of My Tho City, Vietnam. The war for twelve-year-old My Le Nguyen (pron. Me Lay Win) has stripped her of her mother and father and has left her scarred and empty-hearted. “Breakaway Heart” is based on true events and is a culmination of moments from many of the author’s refugee friends and colleagues and tireless research over the past twenty years. It’s the story of a determined girl, My Le Nguyen, and her harrowing journey from Vietnam to the United States and her lifelong search for her father. It’s a poignant look at her life over a span of thirty years as she survives, rape, torture, work farms and life in the camps before finally making it to the States, only to be confronted with more obstacles. Fate and her own tenacity come together to reveal a unique twist in the third act that finally reunites My Le with her long-lost father.