The daughter of the merchant is silk. Jeffris D.

Nicole - half a Frenchwoman, half Vietnamese, the daughter of a merchant Silk, living in Hanoi on the eve of the collapse of French domination in Indochina. Her father leaves the family company to the eldest daughter of Sylvia, while the youngest - a frivolous creature, according to relatives -, upon reaching adulthood, will receive only an old store.

From childhood, Nicole is convinced that the sister despises her for the Asian facial features; In the city, such half -bloods in the city are showered with ridicule and abuse. When it seems to her that she met her love, the older sister suddenly crosses the road... Nicole learns the truth about who her chosen one really is, and realizes that henceforth her life is split in two. Feeling herself rejected and rejected, she runs to the north of the country to enter into resistance...