The Alley

A badly beaten teenage boy wakes up near dawn in a back alley of Vietnam's largest city not knowing who he is or how he got there.
While the elderly inhabitants of the neighborhood are wary that his presence will only bring trouble to their hard scrabble lives, Jade, a bookish, young motorbike courier is determined to help him. She enlists her neighbors to nurse "Trouble" back to health and sets out to find out his true identity while hiding him from local police officers and local gangsters.
The story brings the sights, sounds and smells of Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) to life as its characters navigate the challenges of survival in one of the world's most fascinating cities.