Chittagong The Last Stopover

Moti a tenyearold Bengali boy tells us about his country his life and an encounter that marked his life that of Paul Danvin a French captain who with a heavy heart has just let the scrap merchants of the sea attack the hull of his boat with a blowtorch In Chittagong Bangladesh Paul finds himself without a crew without papers and without a future He takes the train to Dhaka the capital and meets Moti and her mother Alima By instinct or by fascination Paul follows them to the village of Rulipara built on a strip of land protected from the Jamuna River by dykes While the monsoon rages and the Jamuna destroys the houses of Rulipara condemning the population to a new exile Alima and Paul engage in a desperate struggle to live their love without hindrance