TALL POPPY

When a school girl disappears, suicide is suspected, and one of her classmates is suspected of having goaded her into it.

In colonial Vietnam, dashing French naval captain Jean-Baptiste, wealthy plantation owner Éliane Devries, and her adopted Vietnamese daughter Camillevare form the three points of a cross-cultural romantic triangle. As the struggle against European imperialism sweeps Indochina, Jean-Baptiste and Camille have to choose sides and Éliane faces the emotionally difficult challenge of raising the child of her daughter and ex-lover.

A mother and her daughter confront the intimidation of teen peer pressure and the emotionally brutalizing social rituals of high school.