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.Stark affirmed Peter""s mature choice to Happy and o his assistant Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow): "He actually made a mature choice.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.I go down to the kitchen and order dinner.Then there""s the ladies"" luncheon and bridge, always the same ladies.Then dinner - the same people we dined with last week.After dinner, poker for the men and women for the women.There""s talk of children and doctors and servants and the garden club...I can""t go on liking he same things forever and ever...I want all the lovely things I""ve got a right to.In Europe, a woman of my age is just getting o the point where men begin to take a serious interest in her.