![]() ![]() ![]() As Put tries to put the pieces of their family history together in the midst of heartbreak, she'll confront the idea of life debt and inherited trauma along with love and duty. Their relationship fractures when Put announces her upcoming marriage, to a woman, at the age of 40. ![]() But achievement and expectation do not inhabit the same house, especially when Put comes out in her 20s. For many years, Put tried to repay in kind, making choices that would befit a good Cambodian daughter while building a successful career as an award-winning journalist. Put's life was then saved by the American military nurses and doctors that Ma had rushed her into the arms of, a story which, repeated constantly over the years, became family legend. Putsata Reang's family fled Cambodia when she was just 11 months old, spending nearly three weeks aboard an overcrowded Navy vessel before making it to an American naval base in the Philippines. ![]()
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