Because a young man will not pass on the stories he is told by an old servant, the spirits of the stories plan a spiteful revenge for the young man on his wedding day.
A biography of Arn Chorn-Pond who, as a young boy in 1970s Cambodia, survived the Khmer Rouge killing fields because of his skill on the khim, a traditional instrument, and later went on to help heal others and revive Cambodian music and culture.
Born in a village deep in the Cambodian forest, Somaly Mam was sold into sexual slavery by her grandfather when she was twelve years old. For more than a decade she was shuttled through the brothels that make up the sex trade of Southeast Asia. In her twenties, she managed to escape but unable to forget her ordeal, she became a brave leader in the fight against sexual abuse of children. She has rescued some as young as five and continues to show the world how one individual can bring about change.
Huon Chon is the top Khmer Rouge leader still living. Interviews with him follow his journey as a dedicated freedom fighter who became a killer accused of crimes against humanity. Chea was Pol Pot's top lieutenant and is now in prison, facing prosecution in a United Nations-Cambodian tribunal for his actions during the Khmer Rouge rule, when more than two million Cambodians died in the Killing Fields.
Richard Heinzl recounts the experiences he had while spending a year in Cambodia offering medical help to the country's poorest residents and earning his credentials in order to set up a Canadian chapter of Doctors Without Borders.
