Review of the film "Indochine" about a young Vietnamese girl navigating between her French adoptive mother, her white male lover, and her increasing role in the fight for Vietnamese independence in 1930.
In the 1950's, Olivia and her extended family travel along California's coast while her stepfather works at transient jobs, and although her grandmother annoys her with her stories, after her grandmother's death, the stories continue to guide Olivia…