Every refugee in prison has a unique, compelling story. Each varied story shares one traumatic theme: growing up in the midst of violence brought by war or genocide. Fearing for our lives, we flee our homelands. For years we drifted from camp to camp in foreign countries – I from Cambodia to Thailand, then to the Philippines, my friend, Omu, from South Sudan to Ethiopia then to Kenya – before being resettled in the United States. Omu and I came to America to find freedom. Instead, we find ourselves locked up." Excerpted from Sarith Peou's "Coming to America." In "cage(d)," Sarith tells the story of his experiences as a child and then as a young man during the horror of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge era, his escape as a refugee and his journey to the United States that eventually resulted in him being incarcerated for a serious crime. The narration is underscored and supported by a simple and functional movement structure filmed in one continuous shot until the very end of the piece. This film is the first project to come from an ongoing collaboration between writer Sarith, serving two life sentences at the Stillwater Minnesota Correctional Facility, and choreographer Carl Flink. The two were brought together by the organization We Are All Criminals’ SEEN project (weareallcriminals.org/seen). The recording of Sarith was done during phone calls through the highly monitored prison phone system and can only be 15 minutes in length before automatically disconnecting. Carl and Sarith have never met in person due to covid and prison regulations.