Dust of Empire

In 1954 escorted by a sergeant a French nun travels through Tonkin spreading the good Catholic word as she goes A mute child leads her to a remote village Installed at a carpenter the travelers prepare the projection material indispensable to their propaganda At nightfall in a storm a group of maquisards surrounded the house Fortunately the carpenter is a respected man The attackers withdraw After a sudden rise in water the mute child loses the precious message that had been entrusted to him by a wounded maquis