Rolls of razor wire now run through the middle of the village Cambodia calls Chouk Chey, and on through fields of sugar cane.
Behind them, just over the border, tall black screens rise up from the ground, concealing the Thai soldiers who put them up.
This is the new, hard border between the two countries, which was once open and easily crossed by people from both sides.
Then, at 15:20 local time on 13 August, that changed.
The Thai soldiers came and asked us to leave, said Huis Malis. Then they rolled out the razor wire. I asked if I could go back to get my cooking pots. They gave me just 20 minutes.
Hers is one of 13 families who have been cut off from houses and fields on the other side of the wire where they say they have been living and working for decades.
Signs have now been erected by the Thai authorities warning Cambodians that they have been illegally encroaching on Thai territory.
Months of tension along disputed parts of their border erupted into open conflict in July, leaving around 40 people dead.
The BBC has been to border areas of Cambodia, meeting people caught in the middle and seeing some of the damage left by the five days of shelling and bombing.
In Chouk Chey, Provincial Governor Oum Reatrey bemoaned the economic impact on the community of Thailand's actions. He estimates they are losing one million dollars a day in customs revenue from the border closure.
You cannot make an ant go up against an elephant, says Suos Yara, spokesman for the ruling Cambodian People's Party. We have to accept that we are a small country, not big like an elephant.
Yet it is clear that the leaders of both nations need to approach this sensitive situation delicately to foster peace.
