Based on a novel by Marguerite Duras, The Sea Wall is the work of Cambodian native and award winning director Rithy Panh. Set in theFrench Colonies of Indochina (now Cambodia), the film offers a unique portrait of a French widow struggling to keep her land and subsist on a more nativeeconomy of rice farming. French renowned actress Isabelle Huppert delivers a convincing performance of this lady of the land, hardliningher children to work for their best interests, and her own. With all cards stacked against her, she relinquishes nothing to greedy colonialists who threaten ot reclaim her land on the basis ofoutstanding property taxes. Without a crop, she cannot earn money and thus is determined to overcome the natural disaster of high water bybuilding a sea wall to keep the larger tides from endangering her rice fields. The story unfolds when chance and romance allure her 17 year old daughter and 20 year old son into driving their own hard bargains,in which they prove loyal to their mother's wishes. The film offers a profoundly close look at a family atypical to the French diaspora in Southeast Asia and pays tribute to a female character who despite her failing health and temperamental nature overcomes theobstacles placed before her. The Sea Wall is beautifully shot in rural location revealing a world most have never seen.