His father was stabbed to death, his mother was forced to marry a Khmer Rouge soldier, got pregnant, and died in childbirth; in one scene, Thet Sambath stands on the road where he last saw his brother before he too disappeared and was presumably killed. With British documentarian Lemkin remaining in the background, Thet Sambath guides the film with an astonishing lack of vengeance, documenting the recollections of the foot soldiers whose hands cramped up from slitting throats in the killing fields, as well as of the highest ranking member of the regime still alive, Nuon Chea—AKA Brother Number Two, and Pol Pot's right-hand man.