A docudrama on young (and very young) southeast Asian boys/men risking their lives in getting jobs on fishing boats. There are issues of abuse, and even death. In this movie a small rebellion has the captain tossing a worker overboard and says dismissively, "no more Khmer, just Burmese".

Caption: An estimated 200,000 men and boys are thought to be in slavery and forced labour in the Southeast Asian fishing industry; worth billions, and supplies fish products worldwide.

This definitely presents us with a different world view - a world unknown to most of us. The three main actors, excellently portray the visceral tensions that they are all undergoing. There is a Third World authenticity that is largely ignored in most films.

The scenes on the fishing vessel are taut. And sometimes vicious. Think of this film the next time you open a tin of pet food.

A fourteen year-old Cambodian boy grows tired of carrying sacks of fertilzer to rice fields to support his mother, father, brother and sister. He seeks a better life after hearing of a chance to make decent money in the factories of Thailand. A broker picks him and a group of others and drops them off where they are broken up into smaller groups. The boy is put on a fishing trawler with a vicious captain and his crew. He and his fellow workers are treated terribly and couple of them revolt and the captain takes care of them in a horrible manner. The kid carries the film, which at ninety-two minutes moves along quite briskly. This is a great foreign movie.