Secret Sunday

Three men pause in an art gallery to discuss a provocative performance, but a sudden, brutal attack from a monstrous figure shatters the moment. The violence unsettles the space and plants a thread of fear that runs through the film. The event blurs the line between reality and vision, hinting at a ritualistic tone.

Pun walks with a monk through a quiet forest, speaking softly about worries for her son after a disturbing dream. The mood shifts as the camera lingers on damp shadows, hinting that the dream may carry weight from the past. The scene establishes a personal burden that threads through the story.

A young woman named Poon swims laps in a pool, soon approached by a mysterious figure. After she showers, spectral figures turn out to be her friends and Nat playing a prank, coaxing her toward a night out at a club. The moment seeds tension between desire and suspicion within the group.

Following the club, Poon urges Nat to visit his mother, who resists the idea and pushes for temple visits and a steadier path. Nat resists but eventually agrees, while his mother critiques the relationship and signals a clash between tradition and longing. The exchange reveals fragile loyalties and unspoken guilt.

At the first temple, Nat meets a novice monk who feels familiar and is revealed to be Sujitto, an old friend who joins Nat and Poon on their road trip. The casual pilgrimage soon mutates into a nightmarish odyssey through a succession of temples and disturbing visions. The trio's bond is tested as the journey deepens into unease.

On the road toward a fifth temple, three troublemakers on motorbikes smash the car windshield. Nat chases them, but they vanish, leaving behind a wake of tension and blame. The incident compounds the sense that danger is pursuing them on this pilgrimage.

The group reaches a temple where a quiet argument erupts between Nat and Poon. Later, a ghostly child watches from a balcony as a blackout sweeps through the bar where the dispute intensified. The visions blur the lines between conflict, memory, and the supernatural.

In the morning, Poon vomits in the street and Nat fears a possible pregnancy. They gather Sujitto to attend a family funeral and drive through the night with two monks in tow. Nat's sense of danger deepens as he seems to glimpse the windshield boy, guiding them toward a submerged moment inside an old fishery where the boy vanishes among a swarm of eels.

Back at the temple funeral that night, Nat bleeds from the head as the group realizes the service is for the boy he chased earlier. The haunting connection between past actions and present rituals becomes explicit. The funeral scene binds the central guilt to the present crisis.

The journey continues and Poon drives when a calf is struck down on the road. The grieving mother by the roadside unsettles Poon, while a local helper cruelly slaughters the calf to spare suffering, deepening questions about karma and fate. The scene complicates Poon's sense of responsibility and consequence.

At the next temple, Poon seeks spiritual atonement but is set upon by a deformed, child-sized demon who reveals disturbing images of a burns-scarred boy abused by his mother. The vision unsettles Poon, and a fierce confrontation with Nat ends with her slapping him, driving a wedge and leaving Sujitto behind.

Nat resolves to track down Poon and Sujitto, while Poon wanders and is assaulted again, reliving the abuse and the death of the burned boy, suggesting a possible past life. She confides in Nat about her pregnancy and a contemplated abortion, hinting that trauma echoes across lifetimes.

At the final temple, Nat's mother arrives and reveals that Nat has a twin, Sujitto, complicating the family history. Sujitto stands atop a well as it collapses, and he falls with a serene expression. The trio departs with uneasy closure, and Nat offers a long-held gift to his mother as they begin the journey home.

The story closes with a meditation on karma that binds past and present, suggesting memory, guilt, and love shape the paths the characters choose. The journey home leaves more questions than answers, inviting reflection on forgiveness and fate.