Widow, a mother raising her two children in Indochina. After years, she buys a farm concession by investing all his savings. But the land is rendered sterile by the high tide that covers the Pacific each year and that is in misery "little white" what lives with her two children, now almost grown. Despite the misery, facing humiliation absurdity and the administration of corruption, each pursues his dream and his madness, slowly eaten away by the material and moral decay. A meeting will be enough to switch everything? Will they have the courage children to escape from the tyranny maternal or do they remain linked all together by filial love and fraternal?
A hard romance and dark but beautiful, complex and overwhelming characters trapped in a curse that seems to come from the ancient tragedies, a simple style that not ninterdit and effective pictorial descriptions.
A must to read.
