The filming location is on the southern border of Thailand. The director divided the film into nine chapters. Starting from the young and invincible young boys after school, they visited the artificial hell of the temple, the boarding school, the rural royal army, the theater, the slaughterhouse, the military school, and the haunted. Restaurants, etc. From the seemingly inadvertent random interview dialogue, layer by layer, step by step to expose the director’s bold and fearless and incisive political critique, explore how military dictatorship and worship of imperial power penetrate the daily life of the people in the city, and unconsciously shape the collective consciousness, will Thailand embarked on the path of extreme nationalism.

The documentary with Jewish-German philosopher Walter Benjamin ( Walter Benjamin ) proposed "homogeneous, empty time" concept in the title explores the diffusion of nationalism. Benedict Anderson ( Benedict Anderson ) also quoted this theory in his famous book "Imagined Community", pointing out that the ideology of nationalism originated in a region, and people have homogeneous and empty time awareness.

The object of this film includes high school students, religious people, extreme right-wingers, military school students and people on the southern border, trying to find the origin of Thai nationalism.

(The above introduction is transferred from Douban user DPZ).

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