脉轮是14岁，过着筋疲力尽的日子。他、他的爸爸妈妈和他的许多兄弟姐妹都在柬埔寨的稻田里一同作业。晚饭时，他们围坐在小木屋里的木桌旁，父子之间总是定见不合。当一个朋友告知查克拉在工厂挣钱的可能性时，这个男孩决议自己动身。但在途中，他落入了贩运人口的魔掌，被贩卖为奴隶。在他现在有必要作业的泰国渔船上，船长的政权既残暴又果断。暴力、酷刑乃至谋杀都是当今社会的燃眉之急。脉轮认识到他仅有的期望便是脱节摧残他的人。罗德·拉什金的第一部故事片是一部严酷而实际的描绘柬埔寨逼迫劳工境况的电影。这位澳大利亚导演的办法远远不够美丽，无人能逃过。他的扣人心弦的电影是一个对社会不公正的热情见证，一起也是一个关于一个被检测人道的男孩的令人感动和震动的成年故事。Chakra is 14 and leads an exhausting life. He, his parents and his many siblings all work together in the rice fields of Cambodia. At dinner, they crowd around the wooden table in their small hut, and there are always differences of opinion between father and son. When a friend tells Chakra about the possibility of earning money in a factory, the boy decides to set off on his own. But on the way, he falls into the clutches of human traffickers and is sold into slave labour. On the Thai fishing boat where he now has to work, the captain’s regime is both cruel and arbitrary. Violence, torture and even murder are the order of the day. Chakra realises that his only hope is to get rid of his tormentors.Rodd Rathjen’s first feature film is a brutal yet realistic depiction of the situation for Cambodian forced labourers. This Australian director’s approach is far from pretty and spares no-one. His gripping film is a passionate testimony against social injustice and, at the same time, a touching and shocking coming-of-age story about a boy whose humanity is put to the test.