French Indochina, 1931. In the Gulf of Siam, a Widow and her two children, Joseph, 2o, and Suzanne, 16, barely survive by exploiting rice fields located much too close to the ocean. Every year their crops are flooded and their only hope lies in the construction of a seawall. The mother refuses to give up and desperately battles both the sea and the corrupt colonial bureaucrats ...

Director: Rithy Panh

Writer: Michel Fessler, Rithy Panh, Marguerite Duras

Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Gaspard Ulliel, Astrid Bergès-Frisbey

Production: N/A