Set in colonial French Indochina during the 1930s to 1950s, this is the story of Éliane Devries, a French plantation owner, and of her adopted Vietnamese daughter, Camille, set against the backdrop of the rising Vietnamese nationalist movement.
Catherine Deneuve
as Eliane Devries
Vincent Perez
as Jean-Baptiste Le Guen
Linh-Dan Pham
as Camille
Jean Yanne
as Guy Asselin
Dominique Blanc
as Yvette
Alain Fromager
as Dominique
Eric Nguyen
as Tanh
Jean-Baptiste Huynh
as Etienne (Adult)
Henri Marteau
as Emile Devries
Carlo Brandt
as Castellani
Gérard Lartigau
as L'Admiral
Hubert Saint-Macary
as Raymond