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On his deathbed, Tuy tells his stepson Hien for the first time about his mother, Ly An, who became pregnant while unmarried 17 years before and was punished by the pious community in her pottery village. She came to terms with her inevitable death, but continued to refuse to say who the father was. At the moment when the baby was set loose in a basket on the river, an incredible storm whipped up. With her secrecy and taciturn attitude, the condemned Ly An protected her inviolable personal freedom.
