Based on “The Death and Life of Dith Pran”, the 1980 New York Times article by Sydney Schanberg, a Pulitzer prize winner, this drama tells of the friendship between Schanberg and his Cambodian assistant, Dith Pran, during the Khmer Rouge and dictator Pol Pot Regime. The film begins in May 1973, in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia. Schanberg and Pran collaborate and succeed to report to the world about the civil war in Cambodia and the sometimes-destructive American intervention. 2 years later the Khmer Rouge win the war and Schanberg makes arrangements for the safe evacuation of Pran’s family and of himself...