The film tells the story of Claire Ly. We met her at Hautecombe Abbey in August 2004, where she spoke at the International Youth Festival. 
 
 Born in a Buddhist family, Claire was married, mother of one child (and pregnant with another), university lecturer in philosophy at Phnom Penh, when in 1975 the revolution came!
 This was the end of the Vietnam war, with the victory of Communist armies in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. The Cambodian Communists, the Khmer Rouge, became the masters of Cambodia and set up a new society, purged of all Western influence. They exterminated the intellectuals, as well as believers of the Christian, Muslim and Buddhist religions. More than 2 million Cambodians were killed, out of a total population of 5 million. All the cities were emptied ... 
With her family, Claire was taken to the Khmer Rouge camps in the rice fields, surrounded by hate and violence. It was a journey through hell! Claire could not hide her hate and her revolt. Abandoning her traditional values, she chose to ask the "God of the Westerners" for an explanation. Little by little this foreign God became a companion leading her on an extraordinary journey. 
A film that shows us a face: the face of God revealed to us in his compassion, source of peace and hope in the middle of hell!