Hathaithip Srisang

The bittersweet story of Somying Dawrai, a beautiful and successful showgirl working in the famed transvestite cabaret Tiffani Show in Pattaya, Thailand. Somying swears to herself that she will never fall in love. However, when she meets Bunterm, a handsome young singer, her promise to herself falls by the wayside.

This film is adapted from author Rong Wongsawan's best selling novel. It follows the lives, loves and lusts of men and women whose relationships start in a high class brothel 50 years. This post war story focuses on love and relationships between the brothel madam, a pimp, young prostitutes and customers that are in love with a girl but suffer because she to go with other customers to earn money, customers that marry girls and other issues.

Set in Isaan, this is the story of a mother who struggles to lead her needy family through seemingly endless hardships and pressures. To help the family survive, the father endures greedy capitalists who heartlessly take advantage of him and his family, forcing him to slave at the harvest of an infertile field. That is until he loses both his arms. Then all the burdens fall on the mother: bread-winning, taking care of her crippled husband and raising the kids, all amid external pressures from drought to vile businessmen.