barrage contre la pacifique (1957)

in indochina the drama of a mother in perennial struggle is consumed with the waters of a river that invade the earth and with her children, who cannot stand a life of hardship, want to sell everything and go to the city. the young will end up practicing at least a part of their purpose and will leave their mother alone. she, tired and discouraged, dies. then the children return to the fold and, amid enormous difficulties, they build the dam that was the mother's great dream.