On his eightieth birthday, Prieur, a South African man, received a rare gift from his sons; a well in Cambodia. The well became a nagging compulsive obsession he had to drink from it. This story relates how he travelled to Cambodia and what he experienced in that amazing country with its smiling people, nature spirits, medieval temples, strange foods, villages built on water, and monsoon rains. In the ruins of a mystical temple, the old man made a discovery that changed his life. He drank from his well, as he had set out to do, but a thirst that he was not aware of was also quenched.