Worship is premised on a hard reality of the poor in Thailand: the only way for them to climb the economic ladder is not with hard work and financial prudence, but by winning the game of chance—lottery. Many of them thus stay devoted to their faith out of fervent hopes that the deities would reciprocate their devotion by endowing them with luck and prosperity. Their religious rituals serve as a much-needed anaesthetic against not only personal hardships, but also the turbulent waters of the country’s social and political turns. A hymn to the rich spiritual practice of Thai people, the documentary captures with a discerning sensibility the audiovisual feast of elaborate Buddhist rituals.
