Ce documentaire revient sur la politique d'élimination systématique orchestrée par les Khmers rouges, au Cambodge, entre 1975 et 1979, et plus particulièrement sur le S21, principal "bureau de la sécurité" du régime, où 17 000 prisonniers ont été torturés et exécutés.
Vann Nath and Chum Mey, two survivors of the Khmer Rouge's Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, are reunited and revisit the former prison, now a museum in Phnom Penh. They meet their former captors – guards, interrogators, a doctor and a photographer – many of whom were barely teenagers during the Khmer Rouge era from 1975 to 1979. Their appearances are in stark contrast to the two former prisoners, who are both elderly men. Vann Nath, who was made to paint portraits of prisoners, has a full head of white hair.
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