For nearly 40 years, the cats of Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City (commonly known as Saigon) have had a local ally looking out for them. Le Thi Quy, an octogenarian resident of the city’s Dinh Tien Hoang Street, has opened her home as an animal refuge.

In a humbling new video, filmmaking duo Andrew Piggott, a Sydney native who has made ads for the likes of Coca-Cola, Visa and the World Health Organization, and Vietnamese producer Doan Phuong Ha, capture the urban saint as she reflects in finding refuge in care.