As Kodaim Ear smiled for the camera at his wedding, he was told how much he resembles his father. But he can't recall his parent's faces. His father, mother and four siblings have long since disappeared, murdered in the terror that the Khmer Rouge revolution brought to his native Cambodia in 1975. In the five years that followed, his childhood also disappeared, lost in fear and hard labor, until a dangerous path of escape would lead him to Canada.
In describing the suffering inflicted by Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge, a French historian coined the term auto genocide, meaning the deliberate extermination of a race by its own members. It was from this living hell, where culture and personal life were almost destroyed and nearly a quarter of the population died, that Kodaim Ear and members of the extended family barely managed to escape. For twenty years they've refused to return to the killing fields, all except for Hong Ear, Kodaim's grandfather. His Cambodian roots were too deep for him to happily adapt elsewhere, and he lives once again in Phnom Penh. This documentary chronicles Kodaim Ear's journey back to Cambodia, a journey where he, with the aid of is grandfather, attempts to lay his ghosts to rest.
