In the past decade, up to 100,000 refugees have crossed the waters of the Tumen River into northeast China to escape the repressive regime of North Korea, the world's last closed Communist state. In Crossing Heaven's Border, WIDE ANGLE tells the moving and dramatic stories of a few of them. In China, the refugees' fate is grim. They must live in hiding, working illegally and with no access to education or medical care. If caught by Chinese authorities, they are repatriated back to North Korea, where they face severe punishment: persecution, torture, and even death in labor camps. Only a lucky few reach their goal: asylum in South Korea. Crossing Heaven's Border reveals the plight of North Korean defectors from the point of view of intrepid South Korean journalists who risked their lives filming undercover for ten months to capture the refugees' haunting stories first-hand. The reporters introduce us to a mother working illegally as a tour guide to support her six-year-old son, who is sick with cerebral palsy and in dire need of medical care. And we follow the grueling 10-day journey of a little boy smuggled overland across China and Laos into Thailand, which accepts North Korean defectors as refugees. Following the film, an Aaron Brown interview will examine the specter of a possible flood tens of thousands of more refugees out of North Korea as dire food shortages, and mounting concerns about regime collapse threaten the country's stability.