Touching Ground is an ethnographic film using direct cinema after fieldwork among villagers in the Sampov Loun district of Battambang, Cambodia. It follows an amputee, a former soldier, SamChann, and his family as they cultivate oyster mushrooms and teach other amputees how to grow and sell this high-value landless crop, a useful skill for living in a minefield. Parallel to SamChann’s story is the story of Hov Hou, a farmer whose leg has been amputated. As his stump is infected, the small village prosthesis workshop and local hospital seek to heal his wounds and craft his prosthesis.