An unschooled young man, one of the countless victims of Mao's Cultural Revolution, is laboring in the countryside when he is assigned to teach in a nearby school. Gradually, he abandons the Maoist textbook and encourages the barely literate kids to write about their own lives and feelings.

Credits

Chen KaigeDirector

Xie YuanLao Gar

Xuewen YangWang Fu

Shaohua ChenHeadmaster Chen

Caimei ZhangLaidi