He could see his race in a completely new way. Although he didn't want to know anything about his past, he was convinced to go to the orphanage where it all began. The nun who picked him up on the porch the day his mother left him was still there. He said he remembered him even though he was skeptical about it, he took the information. Even though he complained all the time and acted spoiled, at the end of the trip he was happy that he took the trip. Mai made Huan realize how grateful he should be. She told him he wasn't alone. After visiting the orphanage that was left to Huan, he begins to appreciate his adoptive mother better. He then asks Mai to take a photo of him with his mother's camera after avoiding taking photos the entire trip. People often say "Home is where the heart is" and in Huan and Vinh's case I believe that's true. Both had similar opinions about what Vietnam would be like. Vinh keeps Vietnam as a good memory of home. He is able to escape reality and imagine a happier life if he had stayed there without knowing the true reality of this fantasy. Huan, on the other hand, was able to appreciate the house that his adoptive mother had given him. Although they both had different struggles, they both had similar hopes of one day finding their own home and building a better life without feeling the emptiness of the world.