The tale set in a hot, rainy and sweaty French Indo-China (during a period of colonialism) told of a volatile love-triangle between a wise-cracking Saigon prostitute on the run, a brutish, virile and lustful rubber plantation owner, and he lovely dignified upper-class newly-wed wife of an engineer-surveyor.Benji led him to the signal""s location through a maze of streets and dwellings along the waterfront, where he found Julia in a small medical clinic after eliminating her two bodyguards.The Mother""s Fortunes:The inter-title stated: "The woman - now a star of great prominence." The Woman had become a successful opera singer with great material success.After a recent performance, she had received a large floral arrangement with a congratulatory note: "Congratulations on your performance last night.The crotchety old Potter believes that the loan policies of the company only produce: "a discontented, lazy rabble instead of a thrifty working class.