Vietnam markets itself as Asia's next tiger economy, and this DW film goes looking for the cost of that boom. Le Hoang Diep Thao, known as the Queen of Coffee and one of the country's richest women, walks through her plantations, land she leases rather than owns, since Vietnam allows no private land ownership, a fact that keeps even wealthy entrepreneurs dependent on the Communist Party's goodwill. The film contrasts her success with the case of Pastor Nguyen Trung Ton, jailed for twelve years after a sham trial for criticizing the government, his health now failing in prison. In Nha Trang, Anthony TK Nguyen, an American of Vietnamese descent, runs a nightclub and bets on the boom alongside his brother, part of a small wave of diaspora returning while dissidents flee the other way. Interviews and on-the-ground footage trace how General Secretary To Lam's Communist Party, the only legal political organization, presides over a system pairing market growth with tight political control. The film treats Vietnam's rise as a balancing act between capitalist ambition and one-party rule.