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.
Directors: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Studio: Renn Productions
Writers: Jean-Jacques Annaud, Marguerite Duras, Gérard Brach