17th Spring

17th Spring (ใบไม้ผลิปีที่ 17) follows Marn, a boy who was born with HIV, which was passed to him by his mother at birth. Because of the discrimination around the condition he grows up apart from other people, yet he keeps an optimistic outlook. After the death of his grandmother he goes to live with an uncle and transfers to a new school.

There he meets Than, whose full name is Thanthara Sindhupan, a rebellious student with a painful past of his own. Marn tells Than about his HIV status openly. From that point the two boys come to understand each other, and each begins to bring out the best in the other.

The narrative covers Marn's life from early childhood up to the age of seventeen, the age named in the title. The school years therefore sit at the end of a longer arc instead of making up the whole story, and the people who shaped his first years, the grandmother and the uncle, stay part of the picture even after he walks into a classroom full of strangers and has to decide how much of his own story to share with them.

Aston Ratiphat Luengvoraphan plays Marn and Chokun Puttipong Jitbut plays Than, in a boys' love drama set among school friends and family.