Wanlop Rungkumjad

Near a coastal village of Thailand, by the sea where thousands of Rohingya refugees have drowned, a local fisherman finds an injured man lying unconscious in the forest. He rescues the stranger, who does not speak a word, offers h...

One level a deeply felt story of a woman, and on another, that of a country's tragic past and its exploited people.

Jimmy, a 40-year-old ex-pop star turned engineer, returns to his childhood town to oversee renovating an old hotel. The once-glamorous hotel is now dilapidated, with narrow corridors reflecting its past under American occupation.

In a small province not far from Bangkok, Yong's life seems casual and typical of an old man, but he bears the mark of a Thai ex-veteran, as evidenced by the scar from the amputation of his right index finger. Yong spends every da...