What is truth? How much of what we see is illusion, how much reality? Hard to figure for anyone, especially a bereaved, uprooted adolescent. Yet something cries out for resolution here. Young Lap Lae is unhappy with just about everyone and everything, and the world seems to feel the same way towards him. He gets one view from the father who dominates his life, and quite another from his mother, who communes with the Thai spirit world of ghosts and demons. Lap Lae and Kaeng Khoi are high-strung and headstrong brothers from a dysfunctional household in a small Thai town in the late twentieth century. In The Brotherhood of Kaeng Khoi, after tracing their family origins we share their struggles as they grow towards adulthood: in a mountain monastery... in a treehouse in the woods... with the girls next door. Can they negotiate the traps, calamities, and misadventures to emerge wit integrity and a clear sense of who they are, and how to move forward with their lives?