Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
When Crystal's husband, Brian, suddenly announces that his company is sending him to manage its Bangkok office and that he expects her and their children to come along, she reluctantly acquiesces. She doesn't want to leave the job she loves and everything familiar in their small Oklahoma town; it's 1975, however, and Crystal, a woman with traditional values, feels she has to be a good wife and follow her husband.
Crystal finds beauty in Thailand, but also isolation and betrayal. Fighting intense loneliness and buffeted by a series frightening and shocking events, she struggles to adapt to a very different culture and battle a severe depression--and, ultimately, decide whether her broken relationship with her husband is worth saving.
Synopsis
After moving with her husband and children from a small Oklahoma town to 1975 Thailand, Crystal is confronted with a strange culture and a frightening series of events. She finds beauty in Thailand but also struggles to fight loneliness, depression, and, ultimately, betrayal, even as she tries to be the good wife she thinks she ought to be.