Paris, in a bourgeois apartment, Lumina, an ageless Vietnamese woman, dreams of another life.
Mây, a fourteen year-old girl is being married as the third wife to a rich landowner in the late 19th century Northern Vietnam. A black & white version of The Third Wife with no dialogue and new music.
Tran Nu Yen Khe (born 1968) is a Vietnamese actress married to director Tran Anh Hung. She has been in all his films thus far, with the exception of Norwegian Wood. She has alleged that, "French people only offer me stereotypical roles of Asian women men fantasize about."