Rubber

John Van Laer is the overseer of a vast rubber plantation in the Dutch East Indies. His new wife Renee joins him at the plantation, but the monotony of her existence and unbearable heat soon drive her to distraction. One of Van Laer's workmen takes advantage of the boss' absence to seduce Renee. A social satire on the colonial community in roaring twenties Sumatra, based on the controversial novel by Madelon Székely-Lulofs, whose frank tale caused national uproar.