Noi and Nim’s elder brother Manit also lives in the same house as them, with his wife and toddler son.Īfter the funeral, Mink starts to behave a bit unnaturally, at first abusing and attacking one of her uncles, and then Nim sees her oddly staring at an old blind woman at night.
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Noi, who had earlier lost her son Mac to a bike accident, is now left with only her daughter Mink. Around this time, Nim drives to attend the funeral of Noi’s husband, Wiroj, and the camera crew follows her. Nim now lives as the village shaman, performing rites and rituals and also helping villagers treat any spiritual or physical ailments caused by the unseen, like black magic or evil possessions. Bayan then chose Nim instead and possessed her for life. After her aunt’s passing, the next in line was her elder sister, Noi, but Noi did not want to become a shaman and declined the inheritance. In her childhood, she had seen her grandmother possessed by the spirit, and then her aunt after the old lady’s passing. She goes on to explain that the spirit of Bayan had possessed women in her family over many generations. Nim is the shaman of one such spirit goddess, Bayan, who she says is a good ancestral spirit protecting her village for a very long time. The region has an extensive population of believers in animism, meaning that they believe every life form has a spirit, good or evil, and the worshiping of spirits commonly exists here. She says that for the Isan people, spirits have existed all through history, perhaps even before the existence of any religion.
Nim appears in front of the camera, as if sitting for an interview and knowing that a camera is following her around, and introduces the culture of the Isan region (northeast Thailand) with respect to spirits. After many such interviews, they decided to focus on the life of Nim, a woman living in north-eastern Thailand who is also the shaman, or medium, for the local goddess Bayan. The film begins with a text claiming that in 2018 a documentary team went all across Thailand studying the lives of shamans, i.e., people who supposedly act as mediums between the real world and that of the spirits.
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