Neary Adeline Hay

A young Frenchman of Cambodian origins goes to his country in search of himself.

The refugee camp Khao-I-Dang on the border of Cambodia and Thailand was known as the “hill of death.” Hundreds of thousands of people fleeing famine or certain death under the Khmer Rouge arrived there exhausted. Among them were a mother and her baby daughter, who later found a home in France. Fourty years later, the daughter—filmmaker Neary Adeline Hay—follows the trail back in a highly personal, elegantly filmed journey through their past.

Khonsaly finds his former Khmer Rouge executioners, in the obscure intimacy of the village in which they lived for 4 years. Between past and present, identities are revealed, the forgotten specters re-emerging and the story, facing the other, is finally told.