Set in French colonial Indochina (1929), a poor, 15½-year-old French schoolgirl meets a wealthy, 32-year-old Chinese son of a merchant on a Mekong River ferry. Despite the rigid barriers of race, class, age, and social shame, they begin a clandestine, obsessive sexual relationship. The film navigates their doomed affair against the backdrop of a dying colonial empire, family dysfunction, and looming adulthood.
The story begins on a ferry crossing the Mekong River, where a penniless 15-year-old French schoolgirl (Jane March) catches the eye of a wealthy 32-year-old Chinese businessman (Tony Leung Ka-fai). Google Watch Action Data the lover -1992 netflix-