Not One Less

In her village, she was the teacher. In the city, she discovered how much she had to learn.

A tender coming-of-age story about a young girl learning responsibility and compassion while teaching in a rural village, grounded in the material struggles of rural China.

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.