Mike Siv has a plan: go to Cambodia with his buddies Paul and David, see the sights, have fun, and reunite with his father and younger brother, whom he hasn't seen in twenty-two years. Mike, Paul, and David have never been out of the country, and are the first in their families to visit Cambodia since fleeing the bloody regime of Pol Pot in the late 1970s. Refugee, the latest documentary from Spencer Nakasako (AKA Don Bonus, Kelly Loves Tony), takes us from the Tenderloin to Battambang as we follow these three young men and their reunion with long-separated family members. Mike, the most articulate and emotionally invested of the three, supplies the film's narration and main focus. For him, the reunion is filled with happy, strange moments-calling someone “Dad” for the first time, or seeing a smile of recognition on his brother's face. Yet he can't help doggedly pursuing an impossible question-”Why did I grow up without a father?”-as he struggles to understand his family's past. Refugee is a gritty, intimate look at growing up male, Cambodian, and a refugee in America. A simple reunion becomes a journey of self-discovery and acceptance, against a backdrop of war and broken families.