NOTE: As the first generation of Cambodians in America, many Cambodian families struggle to hold on to their jobs. “The low employment rate and urban decay continue to take toll on the residents of Long Beach.
One group in particular has proven to be more suspectable to the crisis and authorities worry that luckless Asian immigrants might be getting forced into prostitution and drug trafficking. According to unofficial police reports and comments, ninety plus thousands Cambodians people, in particular, living in the Long Beach area have turned to drugs to cope with the crisis”.
SYNOPSIS: Eric Smith (Ivan Djurovic) was lovingly adopted and welcomed into a Cambodian family. When gang and drug ties to a local kingpin, Lee Fong, (Larry Parrish) result in his mother’s (Seng Botum) murder, Eric falls deep into the criminal underbelly to find her killers. The life of easy money and fast women slowly corrode his moral compass and he begins to embrace the thug life.
One man with a common past, Rithy Keo,(Sam Lorn) who is searching for his brother’s (Soche Sai Meas)murderers feels that their plights might be connected. He connives Eric into working for him and becoming his mole as Eric delves further into the abyss of the drug culture. Problems arise when information surfaces pegging Eric’s uncle, Bill Smith, (David Simon) as the possible gunman who shot Rithy’s brother. Loyalties are put under question and temperatures boil as the two men come face to face with each other in a climatic bloody showdown.
THEME: Carpe Diem, Karma.
LOG LINE: One man endeavors to avenge his mother’s death while being thwarted by a local drug kingpin.
Locations: Long beach, CA. El Monte, CA, Lakewood, CA, Alhambra, CA
NOTE: As the first generation of Cambodians in America, many Cambodian families struggle to hold on to their jobs. “The low employment rate and urban decay continue to take toll on the residents of Long Beach.
