A camera crew travels all of Thailand asking villagers to invent the next chapter of an ever-growing story. A TV-obsessed boxer, a group of schoolkids, a lonely rubber-tree tapper and feuding food vendors all add to a tale that includes witches, tigers, surprise doublings, and impossible reversals.

Here’s where it all began for Apichatpong Weerasethakul, the Thai filmmaker who would soon become a major voice in international cinema. Through a series of vignettes that leap from fiction to experimental documentary, this hallucinatory debut is the product of a bold and singular cinematic vision.