Wandering through Asia a freelance journalist finally gets his next assignment to shoot some former Khmer Rouge killers back in killing fields of Cambodia, but who was he kidding? He was going for the ride, the sweet ephemeral high of the open road. Pol Pot be damned!

A wanderer by nature, freelance journalist turned road philosopher Gary Schmad is holed up with his cameraman somewhere off the beaten track in Asia with plenty of time to reflect on the eternal questions like just how many roads does it take to get where you're going anyway? Just as he's about to be consumed by his own existential heart of darkness, his assignment comes through in the nick of time. The assignment they gave him was to go back and shoot more footage and interviews on the Killing Fields of Cambodia. This time, though, they wanted him to delve deeper into the heart of darkness by tracking down some former Khmer Rouge killers including the notorious torturer Prak Khan who helped send uncountable souls to an early very painful death. Shooting a nightmarish world where educated people were shot on the spot, fathers disappeared into the night, and babies' heads were smashed on the cement by the khmer Rouge in front of hysterical mothers, he documents a holocaust where millions are murdered or starved to death under penalty of death for a host of transgressions like being able to read or daring to even eat a bug without permission. They say the truth will set you free, but when Schmad pierces the very heart of darkness in his interview with Khan, the gods were still not content. They still had to show him what death was really like, up close and way too personal. But, life is an enigma wrapped in a paradox and so the journey through the heart of darkness is filled with a sense of rebirth, adventure and joy.