Between Us

A first year swimmer who cannot sleep, a senior who offers him a quiet room, and a swim club that notices absolutely everything. Between Us (เชือกป่าน) is the story of Win and Team, and it is softer than its pool full of competitive athletes suggests.

Team (Prem Warut Chawalitrujiwong) arrives at university with one dream: to swim, and to swim well. He makes the team after nerve wracking tryouts, yet competitions keep going wrong for him, and the reason has nothing to do with talent. Old memories keep him up at night, and a tired swimmer is a slow swimmer.

Enter Win (Boun Noppanut Guntachai), a third year student and vice president of the swim club. Win works out what is really holding Team back, so he offers his own room as a place where Team can finally rest. With company close by, Team sleeps, Team trains, and Team starts to improve. Feelings start to grow as well, which nobody wrote into the training plan.

Fair warning: Win is not as sorted as he looks. He finds it hard to accept love and even harder to show the people closest to him that they matter more than anyone else. So while Team works through his past, Win has to learn how to let someone in.

Around them, the club keeps its own stories going. Win's older brother Waan (Puwanai Sangwan) feels the pressure of the family business and grows close to Tul (Patsit Permpoonsavat), a friend he has only ever met inside an online game. Prince (Panupun Vongjorn) and Bee (Weerapat Termmaneerat) deal with a manager who wants a say in Prince's love life. And campus favourites Dean (Ohm Thitiwat Ritprasert) and Pharm (Fluke Natouch Siripongthon) are never far away.

The question at the heart of it is simple and very sweet. Two people who both struggle with closeness have found someone who makes the nights easier. Can they learn to hold on to each other when the season gets hard?