With the onset of the Covid-19 Pandemic came a global sense of fear and uncertainty, followed by political and economic repercussions felt across the world, the likes of which hadn’t been seen in decades.
During those early days of the pandemic, New York-based director David Siev returned to his hometown of Bad Axe, Michigan, where his Cambodian family owns a restaurant.
Bad Axe is where his family sought refuge in the mid-70s after escaping the bloody rule of the Khmer Rouge government that had come into power after the years-long Cambodian Civil War, a conflict that claimed hundreds of thousands of lives.
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