In the few-minute-long short film about the future, the final shot is of the old principal's words and a group of students of different ages sitting in the same classroom.
Perhaps their genders are different, and their clothes vary, but they all share a common characteristic—their hands.
Their hands are covered in scars and calluses that young people from big cities don't have, marks from gathering firewood, cooking, doing farm work, and being weathered by the elements.
They are all quite young, the oldest being only around fourteen or fifteen years old, and the youngest about three or four, yet they have already taken on the heavy responsibility of sharing the family farm work.
They are all left-behind children. Their parents work in big cities far away; they are raised by their grandparents. They all long to change their fate through knowledge, to get into college, leave the poverty-stricken mountains, and see the world outside.
