In her village, she was the teacher. In the city, she discovered how much she had to learn.
Set in the People's Republic of China during the 1990s, the film centers on a 13-year-old substitute teacher, Wei Minzhi, in the Chinese countryside. Called in to substitute for a village teacher for one month, Wei is told not to lose any students.
class
village
mayor
mountain
promise
teacher
money
food
chalk