Fifty years after the fall of Saigon, the Vietnam War continues to shape lives far beyond Southeast Asia. In Bussy-Saint-Georges near Paris, three generations of Vietnamese immigrants reflect on the conflict that forced their families into exile.
On 30 April, 1975, the fall of Saigon – the capital of Southern Vietnam – to the Communist-controlled North brought an end to the Vietnam War. A crushing defeat for the United States, it sealed the country's reunification with a Communist regime that remains in power to this day.
