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In 1954, after the defeat of Dien Bien Phu, the first reception center was established in Noyant d'Allier. For the Vietnamese wives of French soldiers, their Eurasian children and naturalized Vietnamese, it is a real climatic and cultural shock. Fifty years later, diversity remains in this town where the children of the country have in turn married Vietnamese. Son of returnees, Philippe Rostan wanted to tell this unique Auvergne experience, a mixed village half-French, half-Vietnamese, place of successful integration.
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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.

A poor French teenage girl engages in an illicit affair with a wealthy Chinese heir in 1920s Saigon. For the first time in her young life she has control, and she wields it deftly over her besotted lover throughout a series of clandestine meetings and torrid encounters.