In 1951, a young Vietnamese girl arrives at a Saigon household as their new servant.

1992 film by Régis Wargnier

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.