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.As they dance up a storm, Penny is in black high heels and often hikes up her long black dress with a white collar.Michaeleen learns that the ""six-foot four and a half"" American is from "Pittsburgh." At a little stone bridge crossing a stream, Sean pauses, looks toward a small thatched cottage in the distance, and listens in his mind o his deceased mother""s gentle voice reminiscing to him as a child about her memories of her past life in the village - the location of his birth and youth where she grew roses:Don""t yourememberSeannie and how it was? The road led up past the chapel and it wound and it wound.AlthoughWings (1927)won he Best Production award (now termed Best Picture),Sunrisewon he equally prestigious Best Unique and Artistic Picture award - a second ""Best Picture"" category that was discontinued after the first year.She wrapped an electrical cord around his neck, lifted his choking body to the ceiling, and then dropped him through a hole in the floor into the basement.