Ân (Đôi Mắt Phượng)

Ân is the main protagonist of the Vietnamese play Đôi Mắt Phượng, which is based on the short story of the same name.
He is portrayed by the late Vietnamese actor and singer Hùng Cường.
==Biography==
Ân was serving in the ARVN during the Vietnam War. He was happily married to Phượng and had a daughter named Hiền.
After three days break, he returned home to visit his family following his military service. While having a conversation with his mother, he was interrupted by Tâm, his younger sister, who was sympathetic to their mother's concerns that his wife's beauty attracted men during his military service. Following the conversation ended, he went on to burn incense to pay respects to his father. Phượng and Hiền returned home from a shopping visit and having a fun time with him. After that, Ân reveal difficult situations during his military service and concerns about political situation in South Vietnam. Ân and Phượng went on to have a conversation about his experiences during the war. They professed their love together.
Following the takeover of Saigon, many Vietnamese people fled to escape the newest communist regime while Ân and his family remained to stay in their homeland. Ân was arrested and sent to a re-education camp. In order to need permission to visit her husband, Phượng ask a Việt Cộng political commissioner for permission to visit her husband and a Việt Cộng political commissioner went on to rape her, resulting in her being pregnant with his child. She finally went on to visit Ân and tell him about their family's difficult situations after the takeover of Saigon.
Ân was released from a re-education camp and discovered that his house is empty while reuniting with his family. Phượng went on to work as a sex worker to provide support for herself and her family in order to escape the communist Vietnamese regime by earning money. When a client enter the house where Ân spend time building a short chair to have his family to sit, Phượng went on to hang out with a client much to Ân's shock. Following an emotional breakdown, Ân singing a song to have his daughter sleep. After the morning, Phượng return home brought food for her family to eat. Phượng reveal her plan that she earned gold and that his mother brought it to have three of them escape the communist regime. When Ân realized that he will go first before his wife and daughter, he refuses and want to remained in his homeland with his family. Phượng reveal to her husband about how she work as a sex worker to earn money and gold to escape the communist regime. She also reveals to him that she had a son named Thương, born as a result of her being raped by a Việt Cộng political commissioner. Following that, Ân together with his wife and two children, escape the communist regime by went to a boat.
During on a boat, Ân and his wife have a conversation regarding their future when they resettled in a overseas country. Unfortunately, the boat hijacked into the underwater as they went to Thailand. Ân and his family stay in a Thai beach waiting for another boat to return. Bác Trung, a captain of a refugee boat, warned Ân and his family about Thai cannibals and tell the story about how he witnessed Thai cannibals eat Vietnamese refugees as food to eat, causing Phượng faint when she hears the story. When Ân went on to find something, leaving his wife and two children at the risks of Thai cannibals. Thai cannibals kidnapped and killed Hiền in order to eat parts of her body, Phượng discovered that Hiền was murdered and eaten by Thai cannibals and mourning her death. To sacrifice herself for her family as well as her son, she cut her nipple to breastfeed her son to pretend she and her son were dead from Thai cannibals. When Ân returns, Phượng reveals to him that their daughter was kidnapped and eaten by Thai cannibals. When another boat arrives, he gave Thương to Bác Trung so he and his wife go to a boat together. Phượng, suffering from hypothermia, died in his arms. Ân holding his wife's body in grief to return to a boat.
After the death of his daughter and wife, Ân and Thương finally moved to the United States to start a new life for themselves. He went on to raise Thương as his son and will kept a secret to himself that he hope that Thương will never know that his birth was the result of his mother's rape.
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