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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.

Themes

Arranged marriage pressure, Agency vs expectation, Secret relationship tension, Racial and cultural barriers, Economic inequality, Class mobility vs lineage

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