Giap's Last Day At The Ironing Board Factory

2015 • Directed by

Tony Nguyen

Documentary

A short film about a Vietnamese American woman and her son, adapting to life in small town America.

In 1975, a seven-months pregnant Vietnamese refugee, Giap, escapes Saigon in a boat and, within weeks, finds herself working on an assembly line in Seymour, Indiana. 35 years later, her aspiring filmmaker son, Tony, decides to document her final day of work at the last ironing board factory in America.