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This film depicts Bunleua Sulilats templesculpture garden Sala Keoku located in northern Thailand Passages of blackness sporadically dissolve under the fitful internal illumination of sparklers which light up to reveal Sulilats unorthodox temple populated with a fantastical concrete menagerie of beasts and figures the sculptures range from the broad whalelike contours of a frogs face to a cavalcade of dogs on mopeds to a pair of skeletons partially embracing as if sitting for a double portrait These images are interspersed with those of an older Thai couple mysteriously wandering around the temple like wraiths the womans plodding progress hampered by the use of crutches