Thamrong, a young man working as a bus driver and rubber tapper, meets Iu, a university teaching student raised by a strict father. Their love comes to a dead end when Iu's father forces her to marry someone wealthy. The two run away to one of the Chao Ley islands together. However, their path of love isn't scattered with rose petals. The two are forced apart, but the love they have for one another propels them to find a way to each other, to spend their lives together up to the point of historical tragedy famed to this day.