In colonial Vietnam, dashing French naval captain Jean-Baptiste, wealthy plantation owner Éliane Devries, and her adopted Vietnamese daughter Camillevare form the three points of a cross-cultural romantic triangle. As the struggle against European imperialism sweeps Indochina, Jean-Baptiste and Camille have to choose sides and Éliane faces the emotionally difficult challenge of raising the child of her daughter and ex-lover.
Keywords: 1930s , 1940s , 1950s , adopted-daughter , adoption , arranged-marriage , civil-war , exotic-locale , extramarital-affair , french-colonialism , french-indochina-war , french-naval-officer , french-navy , fugitive-lovers , harvest-workers , indochina , indochine , longing , love-of-one-s-life , mother-and-daughter-love-same-man , nationalism , nationalist-separatism , naval-officer , parent-child-relationship , plantation , plantation-owner , powerful-woman , revolutionaries , rubber-plantation , saigon , theater-troupe , tragic-heroine , vietnam , vietnamese