Just a lovely little coming of age, high school love story. While I wasn't familiar with the Thai cast, I really enjoyed the relationships between Nam and her friends and family. Her three good girl friends - together since kindergarden - really seem to understand and defend each other. While not everything is perfect in Nam's family - her father is living abroad in the US and her mother and sister are working hard to keep afloat financially - they support and love one another as well. There aren't any crazy birth secrets or evil sibling rivalries, either. Nam's sister is just your garden-variety pesky little sister! At school, she's lost her heart to her popular and outgoing schoolmate Shone. Although she doesn't feel up to his standards, she uses this one-sided love to build herself up into the woman she'd like to be - a studious, pretty young lady. What I liked is that she didn't stoop to using the boy-catching tricks of the more popular girls at her school. Instead, she improved herself through study and by trying different school activities. Many reviewers have commented on the discussion of skin color as a method of rating beauty. While it comes up in conversations, I don't think Nam is all that worried about it. Mostly, she is just growing up into someone comfortable in her own skin - from a gawky, glasses and braces wearing plain teen to someone who feels able to wear more fashionable clothes and hairstyles. By the end of the movie, even her friends have found their own styles as well. The secondary relationships in this film are also very well done. The actors playing Shone and his father showed their very affectionate bond. The actresses playing the high school girls also did a very natural job. They especially seemed to respect and enjoy their madcap man-crazy teacher - a modern Ms. Malaprop. Music wise, the score seemed just fine. It just didn't seemed designed to catch you with a great "hooky" OST. As a rewatch, I wouldn't rule it out. I almost wish it was a drama format instead of a movie - that would have allowed some of the reasons for Nam's and Shone's behavior to be better explained. Give it a try - it was a very enjoyable way to spend an afternoon.