The lives of two refugees intertwine over a pond which acts as a sanctuary for them as they look toward liberation.
The Japan-born son of an illegal Thai immigrant faces deportation under Japan's increasingly conservative immigration policy. Filmed in careful detail, Prapat Jiwarangsan draws a portrait of the young man by scratching onto a photograph of his silhouette, a process that brings out his humanity more than an anonymous state statistic.
Longing for a life beyond her hometown in the Thai province of Buriram, Ploy moves to various Southeast Asian cities in search of work. She ends up in Singapore as a sex worker at an illegal, makeshift brothel operating under the cover of a jungle’s leafy darkness that is eventually turned into a public park.
