This story is set in 1930, at the time when French colonial rule in Indochina is ending. A widowed French woman, who owns and operates one of the ten largest rubber plantations in Indochina, adopts and raises a Vietnamese princess, who was orphaned at five-years-old. She and her daughter both fall in love with a young French navy officer, which will change both their lives significantly.
Indochine
Eliane adopts Camille, whose Vietnamese parents were friends. In 1930, a French navy officer is interested in Eliane (owns 60km2 plantation) and later in Camille. There's an uprising in Vietnam against French colonial power.