Daniel, a 35-year-old British teacher, moves from Bangkok to a bilingual school in Udon Thani. He ends up sharing a staffroom desk with Waan, a social studies teacher, by pure furniture chance. Two years later, he turns down a promotion in Bangkok for her.
Peter, a 62-year-old Australian, travels to Udon Thani to have hip surgery at a private hospital, avoiding the long public waiting list back home. Ploy, the head nurse on his ward, becomes far more than his carer during recovery.
Robert, a 58-year-old American, travels to Udon Thani after his father's death, an air force mechanic once stationed at the old Udorn base during the Vietnam War, looking for traces of a life his father never talked about. Nid, a local researcher, helps him trace temple records, and something more grows along the way.