Lopburi, north of Bangkok, Thailand, the present day. Lortock, aka Tock is the 12-year-old son of Plern , who runs a three-generation-old family comedy troupe that performs in restaurants and bars. Tock's stage debut w...展开as such a disaster that his father has never used him since, preferring his younger sister Salmon, aka Mon who shows a precocious stage talent. Feeling alienated from his family, and especially his father, Tock has romantic dreams about a pretty dermatologist, nicknamed Dr. Ice who recently arrived from Bangkok. He tries to "date" her, and finds she's the only person who laughs at his attempts to crack jokes. It turns out, however, that she has personal problems of her own.