Two episodes from the long-running series that follows children whose daily commute to class is itself an ordeal. In Manila, ten-year-old Niessa and eight-year-old Nicol live with their families on a garbage-covered hillside and spend two hours each day selling beads in traffic-choked streets on their way to school, work they treat as a duty to their families rather than a burden. They say plainly that they feel lucky to attend school at all, unlike millions of other children in the city. The second segment moves to Shangbu village in Guizhou Province, China, where thirteen-year-old Shi Chunfu, a member of the Dong minority, navigates the terraced rice-farming hillsides his family has worked for generations just to reach his classroom. Location filming and interviews with the children and their families carry both stories, with narration filling in context about poverty, family economics, and rural geography. The film moves between continents but keeps its focus tight on what getting an education actually costs these two families in time, labor, and risk.