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* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler: Khuon closes his eyes and accepts his fate when he is about to be shot by the Khmer Rouge. At least he died knowing his mother and son are safe.]]

* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Averted. As life becomes more difficult for the family, Chou shows signs of visible malnourishment, such as weight loss to the point that her bones are showing through her face. [[spoiler:The end also reveals that the hair she keeps under a makeshift turban has become short and thin, indicating hair loss because of poor health.]]
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:More on the bitter end as Chou's entire family do not make it throughout the course of the film, either due to illness (Tuch), [[DrivenToSuicide suicide]] (Lili), starvation (Chou's mother), [[UncertainDoom going missing]] (Meng and Chou's grandmother), or getting killed (Hout and later her husband, Khuon). Only she and her son, Sovanh manage to flee to Thailand hand in hand.]]

* RapeAndRevenge: [[spoiler:Hout avenges Lili's rape (details below) and her resulting suicide by trapping the guard and his unsuspecting comrade in a thatched hut and setting it alight. Hout is later killed for it alongside another woman who's accused of being a sympathizer.]]

** Downplayed. Chou's grandmother is last seen watching the ducks with her grandson by the river as Khmer Rouge soldiers gather up blindfolded workers to a truck (one of the soldiers is seen brandishing a shovel while the other two are holding guns). Sovanh looks back only to see that his grandmother has gone, heavily implying that she's to be killed in a mass grave along with the others.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:More on the bitter end as Chou's entire family do not make it throughout the course of the film, either due to illness (Tuch), suicide (Lili), starvation (Chou's mother), [[UncertainDoom going missing]] (Meng and Chou's grandmother), or getting killed (Hout and later her husband, Khuon). Only she and her son, Sovanh manage to flee to Thailand hand in hand.]]

* RapeAsDrama: [[spoiler:Lili is sexually assaulted by a Khmer Rouge soldier and her mother, erroneously believing that he's the one leaving them food on their doorstep, tells her to stay with him and keep being nice to him. She commits suicide out of shame and much to her mother's misery.]]

** The girl Sovanh made friends with lets herself be caught when she and Sovanh were stealing food. It isn't shown but it's heavily implied she is killed.

** Also downplayed. The little girl Sovanh befriends [[HeroicSacrifice lets herself get caught for stealing mangoes while she pushes Sovanh away so he can evade capture]] . She was never seen again.

* WouldHurtAChild: It's also heavily implied that the Khmer Rouge would ''kill'' a child. Sovanh becomes friends with a little girl during his separation from his parents. She sacrifices herself when they are both caught stealing mangoes. They do not show what happens to her, but she is never seen again making it very clear as to her fate.

** Also downplayed. The little girl Sovanh befriends [[HeroicSacrifice lets herself get caught for stealing mangoeswhile she pushes Sovanh away so he can evade capture]] . She was never seen again.

* TheOneWhoMadeItOut: Downplayed. Meng manages to flee the labor camp without getting caught, with Khuon wishing him luck. But his fate remains ambiguous, with his safety not fully ensured considering the Khmer Rouge was still going strong at the time of his escape.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:More on the bitter end as Chou's entire family do not make it throughout the course of the film, either due to illness (Tuch), suicide (Lili), starvation (Chou's mother), going missing (Meng and Chou's grandmother), or getting killed (Hout and later her husband, Khuon). Only she and her son, Sovanh manage to flee to Thailand hand in hand.]]