While animal hunting, Wittaya and Lokrai inadvertently offend Nang Takien, the guardian spirit of the forest, who then kills Lokrai. Wittaya is forced to take care of his friend's son, Kham Thong. As a young man, Kham Thong falls in love with Wittaya's daughter Porn but Wittaya prefers Trai, a civil engineer who came to their village to coordinate the building of a dam. When the dam was completed, the village flooded and Wittaya was tasked with clearing every tree, including a big Takien tree.