Liam, a 29-year-old Irish backpacker with no fixed plan, gets stranded outside Korat when his motorbike breaks down next to a noodle stall. Nan, the 24-year-old owner, feeds him without asking. Ten years later they're still together, running the same stall.
Frank, a 58-year-old American veteran, works as a civilian contractor coordinating joint military exercises in Korat, home to one of the Thai army's largest bases. Gift, the base's liaison official, becomes far more than an administrative contact.
Erik, a 44-year-old Dutch civil engineer, arrives in Nakhon Ratchasima for an eighteen-month contract on the high-speed rail project. He meets Mint, the project's liaison engineer and translator, and eighteen months turns into six years.