The film was filmed in a vocational school called “Peach Blossom Cave” for three years. The director and camera become the children’s tree hole, a safe place where they are willing to express their emotions and speak their truth. This trust has led to memorable characters and the opportunity to truly understand the reasons behind the troubled teenager. This is a work that empathically describes the struggles encountered by troubled teenagers. It brings a light and allows us to see the strong vitality of teenagers in such a special environment. These troubled teenagers deserve a second chance, and families, schools, and society should not give up on them easily.

At Taohuadong Vocational School, some students were sent away by the police system for committing crimes, and some were sent away by their helpless parents for being rebellious. Vocational schools, that is, specialized education schools for minors with bad behavior or even minor crimes, assume the role of education and transformation in crime prevention.

The children in the film experienced different stories in the “Peach Blossom Cave”, including resistance and competition with teachers and the school system, complex friendships with classmates, and surging emotions caused by hormones. Some people “change their evil ways and return to the right path”, and some people “come in and out three times”, but they will get out of here one day. As the school secretary worried, “When they leave here, they will be like kites with broken strings and no one knows where to fly.”