A portrait of Nga

Mrs. Nga in an event for Agent Orange victims held in Paris, France in January 2021

The play is about the life and struggles of Ms. Tran To Nga - who for 10 years alone sued against 26 US chemical corporations that supplied 80 million liters of defoliant, including highly concentrated dioxin for the US military during Vietnam War.

Nga has never expected this. She expressed: "All my life, I only think of how to not disappoint my grandparents and become a good person".

In 90 minutes, Angelica Kiyomi Tisseyre-Sekine – a half-blooded Vietnamese actress who acted as Nga, earned the heart of the audience.

Our poisoned bodies features the Nga’s whole life in a some-decade time span amid the country's history.

Nga, a French-Vietnamese woman who is currently carrying cancer, a sequelae of Agent Orange/dioxin that she contracted in 1966 when she was operating in the southern battlefield as a reporter of the Liberation News Agency.

For nearly 10 years, she pursued the lawsuit against chemical companies that produced and supplied Agent Orange used by the US military during the Vietnam War, including Monsantos and Dow Chemical, to ask for justice for Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange/dioxin.

This "historic case" has been trialed by the French court for more than 6 years with 19 procedural sessions and one litigation session. In the first instance session on May 10, 2021, the Evry Court declared that it was not legitimate to give a jurisdiction and the case was transferred to the Paris Court of Appeal by Nga and her lawyers

The two sides keep the criticism and exchanges, until expectedly the second quarter of 2023, when the litigation session at the Paris Court takes place.

Acting alone at first, after 10 years, Nga's "historic lawsuit" has been supported by millions of people around the world.

The play was based on the book Ma Terre Empoisonnée (My Poisoned Land written by Nga). It was made by Lumiere d’Aout group. All the events in the book happened for nearly 10 years.

There was only one actress in the play. She was supported with modern techniques. Through the play each scene and every moment of war that the people of Vietnam and the country of Vietnam have experienced through were recreated.

Earlier, on the day of litigation at Evry court, Marine Bachelot also performed a solo for those who attended the litigation.