A historically incorrect naval victory

On January 17, 1941, Indochina offered the Motherland, at the expense of Thailand, its only fleet-for-fleet naval victory of the two world wars combined. But it was tainted by an original defect: it was "Vichy". This naval battle forms the backbone of this romantic evocation of Indochina and Thailand in the singular atmosphere that prevailed there during the war years.

At a time when ambiguous passions, flamboyant in their folly, are exacerbated, finally freeing themselves from common constraints, aren't fantasy and excess the last landmarks, the voluptuous apogee of illusion? Luxury, opium, sex, domination. The intertwined destinies of a French naval officer and his adopted Thai brother, when all reference points are reversed.