Microcredit was supposed to lift families out of poverty. This DW film follows three Cambodian families to show how it has done the opposite, trapping them in debt that outlasts the original promise of self-help. Interest payments pile up, illegal moneylenders move in when banks won't, and families respond by selling land, migrating for work, or splitting apart entirely. Some borrowers do not survive the pressure; the film documents cases where over-indebtedness ended in suicide. The film traces the idea back to Muhammad Yunus and Bangladesh's Grameen Bank, the model that won him the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 and turned microfinance into a global development strategy through the 1990s and 2000s. Told through interviews with the affected families themselves, the film sets that origin story against what has actually happened on the ground in Cambodia, where a tool marketed as liberation has become another mechanism of extraction. It is a plain, interview-driven account that lets the protagonists' own losses carry the argument.