Kim Thúy was born in Saigon 55 years ago. She was part of the boat people who left the country by sea fleeing the communist victors.

She survived the journey, she arrived at a refugee camp in Malaysia and then Canada opened its doors to her. Her novelistic work, based on short poetic vignettes, deals with the memory of the war and also with the process of her integration as a migrant in a distant and new country. She comes to Madrid to present the film based on her successful novel De ella Ru, directed by Charles-Olivier Michaud.