The Maenad Song

When they brought her out she looked quite emaciated, with circles under her eyes as large and dark as bruises and the skin of her face stretched taut over high cheekbones. Her hair, a mousy blonde in the photos, now almost matched the pale brown colour of her prison outfit. She certainly didn't look the twenty year old girl she was. I'd have picked her for forty-five. But then I guess a few days in a place like Klong Prem would do unkind things to anyone, even a woman little more than a child.
The suicide of Australian artist Max Somerville and subsequent arrest of his daughter Candace for heroin trafficking draw far-flung family and friends together in Bangkok in a desperate bid to save the girl's life.