Cherish

Rain on a huge glass window, two women sitting on the floor, and a row of little bicycles waiting outside in the wet yard. The first poster for Cherish (วันที่ฟ้ามีเฌอ) is quiet, and that quiet tells you a lot. Something is missing from this picture, and both of them feel it.

Fah (Milk Pansa) and Cher (Love Pattranite) lead the story. Cher is a teacher with a secret crush on Fah, the aunt who brings little Fifa to school each morning. Then one day Fifa vanishes, and Cher, the adult who was with him, cannot remember what happened. The school suspends her, the parents stop trusting her, and Fah tells her to stay out of it.

Cher makes one promise anyway: she will find Fifa. Searching side by side pulls the two women together, and the romance grows out of worry, guilt and stubborn hope. The Thai title folds both names into the weather. Fah means sky, and Cher introduces herself as a tree waiting for the sky to shine on it, so วันที่ฟ้ามีเฌอ reads both as the day the sky has Cher and the day Fah has Cher.

GMMTV revealed the series at its GMMTVNEXT: GENERATION HAPPY line up event, placing it among its new girls' love projects. My tip: keep an eye on the little details around Fifa once the episodes start. In a story built on an absence, every small clue matters.