In the No.1 High School of Wuping County in western Fujian Province, 78 high school seniors have only one chance to advance to higher education, i.e. through taking the annual national entrance exam. Eighty percent of students in the school come from surrounding rural areas. Their parents tell them that if they don? want to become farmers, the entrance exam to high education is their only chance to change their lives. The documentary records the hardworking, high-pressured as well as lonely lives of a group of seventeen-or-eighteen-year-old Hakka descendants who are high school seniors at the No.1 High School of Wuping County. As one student puts it, ? can? stand the idea to go through another senior year.?

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