Haing Ngor was a doctor – launched into an unlikely career as an actor and activist. When Cambodia opened up in the early 1990’s, he decided he was also a businessman.  He bought a saw mill – an investment in forestry: one of the most dangerous economic sectors there is, run by the “timber mafia.”  Top players in that mafia? Ngor’s own brother, Chan Sarun, and Prime Minister Hun Sen.  That may sound like Ngor had it easy. But he was dogged by the same financial turbulence that characterized nearly all his efforts in Cambodia’s post-war “compassion fad” economy.  Was it nostalgia? Naïveté? Or did Ngor think he had what it takes to swim with the sharks?