This story is not unique. The story is the girl. If you listen to her, you can learn a lot about Thais. But the narrator is an idiot. He came to Thailand for a holiday. Probably went to a temple and now thinks he's an expert on Thai Buddhism. Then he sought out the salient nightlife he heard about in his women's studies class. He fell in love with a prostitute. But his women's studies professor convinced him propositions is evil men abusing innocent little girls, so he desperately wants to believe his whore isn't a whore. He wants her to be a good girl and love him back. He wanted to shoehorn himself into her life so he concocted this "I'm making a film" bullshit as an excuse to returnt Bangkok and see her again. When he can't deny she's a whore, he made up more bullshit about mafias and no jobs and the girl has no choice. Because he doesn't want to admit the girl he's in love with made a career out of sucking dick. So he becomes a white knight, giving the whore taxi money so she wont suck dick at a party and defending her from a rude customer. His women's studies professor is so proud. When Pla knows she won't ever get any money from him, she wants to get rid of him. So she tells her friend, "Tell him I died". He's back in Vancouver pretending to be an expert on Thailand. And probably thinks he's an expert on lions because he saw one in a zoo. Pla could not help the idiot narrator understand Thais because he's an idiot. But you're not an idiot and she can help you understand In a way I've never seen in the media before. Good job, Pla. Pla is sucking dick in another bar three blocks away. Her mother was never sick. Pla spends her dick sucking money on gold chains which she tells everyone were gifts from men she didn't fuck.