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Production Country (s) Thailand Production Company (s) Electric Eel Films
Genre Drama / Thriller Production Spec 4K / Color / 90 min
Production Stage
(or Project Status)		 In Development Expected Date of Completion Mid 2022
Total Budget
(Negative Cost)		 350,000 USD Confirmed Financing 5,000 USD
(Production House Investment)
Fellow Name Maenum CHAGASIK
Director Tongpong CHANTARANGKUL Email of Director ongpongc@gmail.com
Profile of the Director Tongpong Chantarangkul graduated from the London Film School with an MA in Film making in 2007. In 2008 he directed I Carried You Home, which received the Asian Cinema Fund’s Script Development Fund (2008) and the Post-Production Fund (2011). The film world premiered in the new current competition at the 16th Busan International Film Festival in 2011. He is currently developing his next features including The Fireflies, selected to participate in Asian Project Market, Busan IFF in 2013, and Skin, selected for 2018 Seoul Screenplay Development support by Seoul Film Commission.
Producer (s) Maenum CHAGASIK Email of Producer (s) maenumchagasik@gmail.com
Profile of the Producer (s) After working as an assistant director for several Thai independent filmmakers, in 2011 Maenum Chagasik began producing the feature film In April the Following Year, There Was a Fire and directed by Wichanon Somumjam. That film was selected for Tiger Awards Competition at the International Film Festival of Rotterdam 2012. In 2016 she co-produced By the Time It Gets Dark which was directed by Anocha Suwichakornpong. Her latest work, Krabi 2562, directed by Ben Rivers and Anocha suwichakornpong, world premiered at Locarno International Film Festival 2019.
Logline In Seoul, a Thai immigrant working illegally in a massage parlor is in search of her missing best friend. She befriends a local Korean female tattoo artist who helps in her search, but her new friend has a dark secret that could reveal her own past trauma.
Synopsis DEUN (26) is a swimming instructor who can’t forgive herself for having let a boy die in her swimming class. Unable to overcome her guilt, she decides to follow the path her best friend MAPRANG (24) took: to work as a masseuse in Seoul. After arriving in Seoul, Deun learns that her best friend has gone missing. She begins searching for her only friend. Meanwhile, Deun befriends her regular client, JEE-UN (24), a Korean female tattoo artist. Jee-un is suffering from depression after a car accident in which she lost
her boyfriend. The two lonely souls turn to each other, and Jee-un joins the search for Maprang. Deun suspects that the massage shop owner MR. KIM (45) might be behind Maprang’s disappearance but finds no evidence of it. At work, Deun is forced to give a client a sex massage, which she reluctantly endures to save herself from a beating. To escape massage work, she runs away and seeks shelter at Jee-un’s place.
When Jee-un visits the police station in connection with her car accident case, she finds out that the accident led to not only her boyfriend’s death, but also of a yet unidentified person - who shockingly turns out to be Maprang. Realizing that Deun’s missing best friend is now dead and due to her mistake, Jee-un is engulfed by guilt and attempts suicide. Deun tries to save her but fails. A shattered Deun goes back to the massage parlor. She calls the police and waits to turn herself in.