Sweet Dreams
★ 6.9 · 2023 · 102m · Drama · History
Tumultuous events triggered by the death of a Dutch sugar plantation owner who ends up leaving his Indian Ocean island estate to his young illegitimate son - the child of his Indonesian housemaid.
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