On a single day in 1940, as Victorine reflects on her past, we travel back with her, from the willow-lined canals of her childhood home in VendÔee to sun-drenched days and languorous nights along the Mekong River at the dawn of the twentieth century. Hers is an unforgettable story of adventure and self-discovery—of a woman’s struggle between duty and independence, tradition and freedom, longing and regret.