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Shanghai, 1925. Irene, a museum curator, is searching for a set of legendary copper scrolls which describe the forgotten history of Cambodia's ancient Khmer civilisation. In China, she enlists the help of Simone, a mercurial Frenchwoman who has a reputation for both stealing artefacts and starting revolutions. Irene and Simone set off through the Cambodian jungle to search for the scrolls, but it soon becomes clear that each is determined to acquire them for her own reasons, and that once they have located them it will be every woman for herself.