China's higher education system promised an escape from poverty; this film follows the students and graduates discovering it no longer delivers one. Director Weijun Chen tracks young people from families with no history of college as they choose schools, borrow for tuition that can run to sixty years of a rural family's income, and graduate into a job market with no place for them. Two million new graduates a year end up in what's called the "ant-tribe," crowding into cheap shared housing while they search for work that matches their degree. One graduate takes the only job available, selling education services to other students, fully aware the product is close to worthless. The film moves between classrooms, family homes, and the cramped apartments of the underemployed, letting individual stories carry the argument rather than statistics alone. It is part of the Why Poverty series, and its subject is the gap between a system built on the promise of hard work and an economy that no longer has room for everyone it trains.