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This film is a portrait of high school students in the early years of the People's Republic of China. These four girls face the same challenges of girls anywhere else in the world, but they must also face the changing landscape of a revolutionized China. The film was made in the early 1980s, at a time when filmmakers were given new freedoms to expand their subject matter beyond revolutionary propaganda. This portrait of youth reflects nostalgia for simpler times in the early days of modern China.