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.
Xie Yuan
Lao Gar
Xuewen Yang
Wang Fu
Shaohua Chen
Headmaster Chen
Caimei Zhang
Laidi
Xu Guoqing
Lao Hei
Gu Changwei
Secretary Wu
