In colonial Vietnam, dashing French naval captain Jean-Baptiste, wealthy plantation owner Éliane Devries, and her adopted Vietnamese daughter Camillevare 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.

Catherine Deneuve
as Eliane Devries

Vincent Perez
as Jean-Baptiste Le Guen

Linh-Dan Pham
as Camille

Jean Yanne
as Guy Asselin

Dominique Blanc
as Yvette

Alain Fromager
as Dominique

Eric Nguyen
as Tanh

Jean-Baptiste Huynh
as Etienne (Adult)

Henri Marteau
as Emile Devries

Carlo Brandt
as Castellani
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This is a sort of French equivalent of the British Merchant Ivory films that showcases the decline of a colonial influence in the early 1950s tempered with a bit of inter-racial romance. This time it the wealthy "Éliane" (Catherine Deneuve) who owns a large rubber plantation and adopts young local "...