They eventually reunite and Anne sees a shattered city through the eyes of one of the few foreigners in town. Her longing and disappointment when her letters go unanswered is palpable.Įleven years later, while the Vietnamese are withdrawing from Cambodia, Anne thinks she sees Serey on television and immediately leaves for Phnom Penh. After the Vietnamese invasion the Cambodian border opens again, Serey leaves to find his family and Anne finds a Khmer tutor in Montreal to bring her closer to her lost love. Their romance is all-consuming and Anne is reckless and besotted in the way of sixteen-year-old girls with older, troubled boyfriends. Serey is the long-haired lead singer of a band, tormented by the fact that he cannot return to his native Cambodia because the Khmer Rouge have closed the borders while his family remains trapped within. Anne Greves is sixteen when she first meets Serey in a nightclub in Montreal.
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