When Vietnam invades Cambodia (Kampuchea) in 1978, a 12 year old Cambodian boy (So Sombat) escapes to Thailand with his little sister. After meeting a group of Khmer Rouge child soldiers, he decides to join them and fight the Vietnamese.

The war machine has turned the country into a battleground, transformed under the thunder of the cannons. Everything is silent, and the law of death controls the land. This history shows the hardness and cruelty of a senseless war with a realism, which does not conceal anything.—Ørnås