Jasmine Li is seventeen when the cameras start following her through a blue jeans factory in southern China, where she and her coworkers sew for pennies a day on shifts that stretch past midnight. The footage is shot clandestinely, smuggled out of a plant that supplies jeans to Western retailers who have no interest in showing customers where the denim actually comes from. The film stays close to the dormitory and the factory floor rather than cutting away to experts or statistics, watching Jasmine eat, sleep in shifts with her roommates, and argue with managers over unpaid wages and mandatory overtime. What emerges is the mechanics of a supply chain built to keep costs invisible: piece rates set low enough that workers have to skip sleep to earn a living wage, and a management structure designed to make outside scrutiny nearly impossible. The camera's presence itself is part of the story, since getting inside at all required deception on both sides of the lens.