A still from Mam, directed by Nan Feix and starring Jerald Head (left) and Nhung Dao Head (right). (Photo courtesy of Loveboat.) B ack in 2016, Jerald Head met his future wife, Nhung Dao Head, while visiting Ho Chi Minh City. As the couple told the writer Mayukh Sen, he approached Nhung with his shaky, beginner’s Vietnamese—and she mistook him for a college student.