Thanom Akkraseranee

Noi runs a rural bar and guesthouse called the Paradise Hotel. He tends bar and arm wrestles any challengers. The hotel, which has only one room, already has a guest, a man named Chana. Chana is annoyed that the hotel plays host to various musical groups, including a man who sings European opera, another man who practices the trombone, a Peking opera troupe, a Filipina ballad singer and a brass band that accompanies two bare-knuckles boxers.

A story from the chronicles about Panthai Norasingh, who was praised for his honesty after crashing the King's royal barge into a tree branch to save his life from planned assassination, hence requesting his own execution to uphold the palace's rules.