Our benign efforts all add up, they accumulate and have force, even failure has effect. Petite, almost aggressive in her vitality, Suk raises herself out of childhood poverty to become a trek guide in the forests of the Kingdom of Thailand. She lives with her friends at LekNaruk Inc, a tiny eating place in the country town of Klong Graitin, and struggles to establish and maintain her independence amidst a miscellany of acquaintances and visitors. Experiencing the full range of the human comedy, including hubris and violence, inevitably Suk has to compromise in life and love. Suk Quartet: Volume 1