Hundreds of thousands of displaced Burmese and ethnic minorities live precarious lives on the Thai/Burma border. They have fled persecution by Burma’s brutal military government, whose soldiers have razed their villages burned their crops and destroyed their livelihoods. The junta’s campaign of terror is relentless. Its troops murder men, rape women and girls, and orphan children. Survivors who make the long and dangerous journey through dense jungles, and across mountains and rivers. Many then illegally cross the porous,shambolic border into Thailand.

There they scrape a living as cheap labor, in sweatshops and in rice fields, on building sites and in grimy brothels.

Stateless, and without rights or legal protection, their existence is suffused with fear and hardship. At any moment they may be arrested and deported on the whim of the Thai authorities, and returned in cattle trucks to the evil regime in Burma they have fled.

Yet still they come to this border desperately, striving to pick up the pieces of their shattered lives.