Set in the wide golden rice fields of Bang Kapi in 1936, “Plae Kao” or “Scar,” is the latest visualization of the kingdom’s most famous Romeo and Juliet-style legend. Kwan (Jan Dara 2’s Chaiyaphol Julien Pupat) and Riam (Pee Mak’s Davika Hoorne) come from feuding households on different sides of canal. Because of their fathers’ quarrel, they are told to never fall in love, but like any story featuring forbidden fruit, it’s not long before it’s sweetness is tasted.
The two secretly meet at the village’s banyan tree shrine, where they swear to love each other until separated by death.