Motion Picture Teller

This is quite a departure for Cotterill (though perhaps not such a departure, as it retains his distinctive originality). It concerns two friends in Bangkok who are obsessive film buffs. When a man sells them some old VHS tapes, they are astonished to find a Thai film they'd never encountered - and it's brilliant, much more sophisticated in its production than most Thai films, and daringly critical of the direction of the society, given its production date. One of the pair, a postman, determines to find the beautiful woman who stars in the film, and through dogged work he is finally able to write letters to her ... and eventually travel to the community where she lives, and where the secret of the film is protected.