Butterfly and Flowers

Butterfly and Flowers

1985 · 127 min · ★ 6.8 · Drama

Highlights the hardships faced by a boy who works selling popsicles at the local train station and forced by economic circumstance to smuggle rice across the Thai-Malaysian border.

Directed by Euthana Mukdasanit · Written by Rassamee Phaoluangthong

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