La balada de Soi Cowboy

They say the most beautiful women in Thailand are born in Isan, but also the most deceitful. Perhaps beauty carries a curse. It's the kind of place where souls are born old. Nana grows up there, in one of the poorest regions of Thailand, where fields are burned every year to be sown anew. Nana soon learns that the body, too, burns, that poverty is inherited, and that some destinies are etched in fire. When she arrives in Bangkok, the city mercilessly subjugates her. In the neon lights of Soi Cowboy, Nana discovers a world where desire is a commodity, power always has a price, and love is never innocent. But this is not just the story of a woman who sells her body. It is the story of how violence is transmitted, how the past seeps into the flesh, how some narratives seem condemned to repeat themselves. Between brothels and rituals, and marked by a secret passed down from generation to generation by the women of her family, Nana descends into a territory where the spiritual and the brutal coexist without contradiction.