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Relocation
Athy's family is forced to move to a village where Athy's brother Vin dies. -
Near-Death Experience
Athy injures her foot, caught while trying to pick herbs to cure her infection. She is tied up and almost killed when she is released, her mother helping with her injury, and in the new labor camp, is given Western medicine to save her foot -
Death of Kin
Athy's sister Avy and mother Mak die from malnutrition -
Looking up
The Khmer Rouge flee as the Vietnamese army approaches -
New camp (Thai Border)
Athy's family begins to sell waffles at a roadside market, Ra and Than then go to get sellable goods, who is later followed by Athy -
New camp (Thailand)
Athy reunited with her family Ra and Than and Ra's love interest, bang Vantha, Than returns to Sala Krao to bring the surviving family, and Ra and Vantha adopt a child named Savorng, before the Khmer Rouge attack camp and the families there decide it leave -
Khao l Dang Camp in Thailand
Athy goes to pursue education, meanwhile Ra and Vantha marry in which Ra gets pregnant and Vantha is very cruel to her family afterwards they left for Sakeo ll camp -
Sakeo ll Camp
Ra gives birth to her daughter Syla, Than is beaten by police, Athy is taking classes, after fighting with Vantha then Athy calls her uncle Seng to beg him to sponser their family's immagration -
Leaving war
Athy and her family, some there and some lost, after all the running they have been doing, have finally been able to find someplace to find some sort of salvation