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In April 1975, VC came to power. They put NTS's father in jail, a Re-Education camp, and ordered his family to march to a New Economic Zone, a desolate jungle, as punishment for being related to the colonel of the fallen republic. The headless family has to sell all they have to buy a fake family background paper proving that they have no ties with the old regime, and moves far away.Thinking that the best place to hide is inside the VC enemy, so with the fake paper, NTS joins the Communist commerce school, a school created by VC to train their future comrades.Here he rides wild rides with his enemy. Here he falls in love, before knowing that she is a daughter of a VC hero, his nemesis.He realizes that he could no longer hide, and that he needs to lead his Orphans of the Society (OS), a body of sons of the fallen soldiers of the free republic, to the open sea in search of freedom.OS organizes to launch freedom boats. And by doing that, they become reactionaries, the rebels against the Communists. Their sentence is death. And NTS is the ring leader.She is in his way and in OS's as they fight their archenemy on their way out.Son Thanh Nguyen is an Electrical Engineer, PE. He graduated from Virginia Tech. His novels include "Window of Time," "The Wicked Evolution," and "The Frozen Planet."