

Sayon Soeun breaks a 25-year silence to reveal his abduction by Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge at age six, taking us behind the scenes with the children’s army as a witness to genocide. Footage from a lost archive reveals a war-torn country closed to Western media during the 1970s. We follow Sayon to America to track his remarkable recovery and eventual redemption: helping children enjoy the kind of childhood that was stolen from him. A trip to Cambodia to search for family finds Sayon plagued by doubt, so he insists his possible siblings take DNA tests. The results provide a dramatic ending.
Directed by Janet P Gardner (USA)