A story of survival under Communist domination and of a risky escape out of the iron curtain to the open world. The memoir with poetic brilliance narrated all the Communist implemented measures to subdue the author's fatherland under the impoverishing and obscurantism policies after the end of the Vietnam War. Leaving the Vietnam fatherland, the former home-arrested puppet resident lingered for 15 months as a boat people refugee in Hong Kong transit centers prior to being accepted to resettle in The United States.