When I was thirteen years old says Rithy Panh, I lost my entire family in a matter of weeks They were all swept away by cruelty and the madness of the Khmer Rouge. I was left without a name. I was left without a face. And in this way I got on with my life, because I had been left with nothing. Thirty years after the end of Pol Pots regime, which was responsible for the deaths of 1.7 million people, this child has become a prestigious film maker. He decides to interview one of the men responsible for this genocide: Duch. The Elimination is the story of this unusual confrontation.