The Beach

Late at night in a seedy hotel, richard is drawn into a strange conversation with a fellow guest through a narrow strip of mosquito netting he hears for the first time of a secret beach, and island garden of eden hidden somewhere in the scattered islands of a thai marine park next morning, richard finds a map pinned to his door, and the man who put it there has slashed his wrists the challenge is irresistible, and richard sets off on a perilous journey in search of shangri-la