Since 1975, several million South Vietnamese, Cambodians, and Lao have left their homelands in rickety boats, fleeing the communists' claim on their lives.

Of the millions of Boat People who escaped out to sea, more than 50% died in the ocean trying to reach free shores. Of those who survived the journey, more than 200,000 have been waiting in refugee camps, caught between disaster and freedom. Many were unaccompanied minors, uncertain even of refugees status, they exist somewhere in crowded camps. 920,000 managed to reach the United States.

SOS - Stories of Survival is a about several young survivors' stark process of becoming 'American.' Youngsters who escaped the war's disasters tell of school days under Communism, inter-generational conflicts and the way Western prejudice has assaulted their dreams — but have not diminished their dignity.