Set in 1939, the early days of World War II in Siam, to Angsumalin meeting one last time with her childhood friend, a young Thai man named Vanus. He is leaving for England for his studies and hopes that Angsumalin will wait for him and marry him when he returns.
Set during Thailand's economic boom, an ambitious and hardworking advertising executive, Pim, has little time for a love life, and is disinterested in her suitor, Komson. To urgently find a replacement model for a commercial, she hires Bird, a male hustler that she scouted at Siam Square. Bird's carefree personality and courtship eventually moves Pim, and they begin a relationship.
Tongpan is a 1977 Thai 16 mm black-and-white docudrama that re-creates a seminar that took place in Northeast Thailand in 1975 to discuss the proposed Pa-Mong Dam on the Mekong. Interwoven are sequences depicting a poor farmer, Tongpan, who had lost his land to another dam some years before, and his struggles to make ends meet.