This visually beautiful movie  from Thailand avoids a traditional narrative and relies heavily on mystical and magical elements to tell this deeply moving story about love and loss.

Pich (Anuchit Sapanpong ) has returned home to his remote country village to attend his mother’s funeral even though he is hardly well himself having just refused further treatment for his severe lung cancer.  While he is there he looks up Shane  (Sukollawat Kanarot ) his ex-boyfriend who had turned down the chance to move to Bangkok with Pich so that he could stay behind and get married.  

He still runs his jasmine orchard but his only daughter died and his wife left him .  Now he is shocked to discover how very ill Pich is and so vows to become  a monk to pray for his soul as he then roams the countryside with an elder monk.

Although it all moves at a snail’s pace and offers little clarity into the real meanings behind all their actions. there is something profoundly  compelling about how their spiritual and religious beliefs help them deal with grief.

The sexuality of the two men is not an issue at all and it is very obvious from the moment that Pich reappeared in his home town, they both felt the same deep connection for other.   It was just that now they had little time left to explore and develop their feelings further.  Well in this life anyway.

 

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