The author, winner of an Academy Award for his role in "The Killing Fields," tells his own story of flight from the Khmer Rouge who forced him underground where he worked as a doctor at his own peril.

Includes index.

Introduction: The Rise -- 1. Early Rebellions -- 2. Education -- 3. Romance and Coup -- 4. Civil War -- 5. The City of Bonjour -- 6. The Fall -- 7. The Wheel of History -- 8. Exodus from Phnom Penh -- 9. Wat Kien Svay Krao -- 10. Medicine for Angka -- 11. Return to the Village -- 12. The Crocodile Loses Its Lake -- 13. New Directions -- 14. The Plow -- 15. Sickness -- 16. The Parade of the Selfish and Dying -- 17. Reorganization -- 18. Bells -- 19. Angka Leu -- 20. The Wat -- 21. The King of Death -- 22. Candles -- 23. The Rains -- 24. Rice Farming -- 25. The Dam -- 26. The Cracks Begin to Show -- 27. Drops of Water -- 28. Happiness -- 29. Crossing the Sea -- 30. Grief -- 31. Retreat -- 32. Liberation -- 33. Battambang -- 34. The Danger Zone -- 35. The Locket -- 36. Saloth Sar -- 37. Okay, Bye-bye -- 38. The America -- 39. Starting Over -- 40. The Killing Fields -- 41. Celebrity -- 42. Karma -- Index.