Dith Pran had to watch his country be choked and then left to die in a fiery pit of hell. The Khmer Rouge was ruthless, leaving Pran no choice but to surrender himself to the God of death, Angkor. No education. No freedom. No individuality. The reality was - no one could survive the killing fields. "This is year zero," the beginning to the end, but for Dith it was the beginning of a new life. He crossed the Thai border in 1979! He survived the killing, the ripping of individuality, the brutality of it all.