FILM SYNOPSIS

In 2003 an investment banker by the name of John McGinley travelled to Cambodia on vacation. While in the beachside town of Sihanoukville, he witnessed a disturbing incident involving a pedophile and a street child under the age of twelve, an experience that would change his life forever. Soon, he discovered this area was a known haven for pedophiles, and classified by many journalists and NGOs as 'the pedophilia capital of the world.' John was so appalled that upon returning to his adopted home in Europe, he left his career as a derivatives trader and returned to Cambodia to help alongside concerned members of the local community establish M'Lop Tapang, an organization dedicated to protecting children from sexual predators.

Two years later, we meet John as he introduces us to the boys that changed his life. Maap, 18, escaped from his drunken violent father at the age of 8 to become a glue addict on the streets. We see the M'Lop Tapang outreach team reunite Maap with his parents after 10 years, each thinking the other were dead all this time. We meet two brothers habitual street kids who walk the streets, fight over glue, and sleep on shop pavements, while their alcoholic mother, with 7 other children, sells glue to children out of her dilapidated one room hut that sits at the far corner of a communal urban slum.