A moving, first-hand account of a family’s struggles during the Cambodian genocide in the 1970s, told by a survivor. Forty years after the fact, Thell recalls in perfect detail the time period when the Khmer Rouge forced her family from their home and their subsequent life. Gripping, touching and chronicled through interviews overlaid with artists’ animation and recreations of the time, the film deftly asks the viewer to become a participant in the duty of remembrance of a family’s ancestry and a nation’s past, to great effect.
