ItisFrenchColonialVietnamin1929.AyoungFrenchgirlfromafamilythatishavingsomemonetarydifficultiesisreturningtoboardingschool.SheisaloneonpublictransportationwhenshecatchestheeyeofawealthyChinesebusinessman.Heoffersherarideintotowninthebackofhischauffeuredsedan,andsparksfly.Canthetorridaffairthatensuesbetweenthemovercometheclassrestrictionsandsocialmoresofthattime?Basedonthesemi-autobiographicalnovelbyMargueriteDuras.WrittenbyCalLottcal.lott@gsb.uchicago.edu

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.