Summary

Before going home, Arn stops at the neighbour’s house to try to catch a glimpse of the girl who lived there. She had been making faces back and forth with him, and Arn wasn’t sure how he felt about her. By the time Arn gets home to tell his aunt about the Americans, she is frantic and begins directing him as to things he needs to carry. It seems to Arn as though the entire country is on the road. A boy Arn recognizes catches up with him and tells Arn that his father went to the airport with Khmer Rouge with the rest of the soldiers who joined them from the town, and his brother watched from the bushes as the Khmer Rouge shot them all.

They walk through town and see a big fire in the park. Even hospital patients...