Retired doctor Harold Gordon thinks he knows the shape of his life. For years, secrets from his past have put distance between himself and his beloved wife, Emma. Now they're trying to reconnect through a cruise to Cambodia, where he had worked soon before they were married. Around the same time, Daevy Khang's sister is kidnapped by thugs working for Alexei Kozlov, an emigree Russian mobster, who is, in turn, acting under orders of a powerful local Cambodian crime warlord, an elusive Mr. Pho. Kozlov is eager to find out what Pho wants with the Khangs while at the same time having to contend with an assassin sent to kill him. "Danger in Cambodia" is a love story told against the backdrop of an adventure.