Once a revered monk, now just a cautionary tale, 54-year-old Daorung has managed to find himself on the wrong side of the law. Known for his tranquil days at Wat Don Mai Fai, Aranyaprathet’s serene village temple, Daorung recently found himself in an entirely different environment: the relentless pursuit by Police Colonel Wisit Buasongwong’s team, following a rather ill-chosen career path as a thief. His tale begins innocuously enough in Sa Kaeo province where, after a tenure in the monkhood, he swapped meditation for intoxication. Bend after bend in the bottle blurred the boundary between reality and imagination. Soon, he found himself taking wildlife advice from hallucinations urging him to wield a kitchen knife and plunder the peaceful temple’s donation box. The spoils? A cool 18,000 baht—an amount that, unfortunately, whispered loudly enough for Daorung to indulge his thirst further. In a scene that nearly sounds plucked from fiction, Daorung…
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