Letters from Sadec

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2025Production https://www.sadec1965.com/immersive-audio

SADEC 1965 is a 70-minute immersive audio drama adapted from Flora Le’s award-winning one-woman show.

Part memoir, part historical excavation, 'Letters from Sadec' unfolds like an audio documentary performed from the inside out. When Flora’s father dies, leaving behind almost no stories from his life in Vietnam, she embarks on a cross-country motorcycle trip to uncover the truth he refused to tell.

What begins as an escape becomes a confrontation with everything she has tried to outrun: a violent father who abandoned her, years of exploitation and addiction, near-death moments, and a lifelong pattern of loving unavailable men.

As she navigates mountains, monsoon storms, and rural villages, she slowly uncovers her father’s secret life — a six-year wartime romance with a girl named Hien, who wrote him more than 600 letters while waiting for him to return. Flora learns how the war, duty, and fear shaped her father’s violence and silence — and, ultimately, her own wounds.

In Sadec, within the quiet walls of a Buddhist temple, two women meet across time and grief, finally closing the chapter of a life spent seeking the love of the same man.