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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.

Sweaty, sun-drenched longing replaces typical cinematic sentimentality in this lush depiction of 1920s Saigon. A teenage girl finds unexpected agency through a forbidden affair with a wealthy Chinese heir amidst the humid heat of colonial Indochina.

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