A single classroom in Wuhan holds China's first experiment in electoral democracy: a third-grade vote for class monitor. Three eight-year-old candidates campaign for the job, and the film follows each one through speeches, stunts, and backroom lobbying that would look familiar in any national race, except here the strategists are parents and the voters are eight. Teachers stage the debates, mothers and fathers coach their children on tactics and even write attack lines about rivals, and the kids absorb the lesson fast, trading favors and forming alliances in the hallway. Director Weijun Chen keeps the camera at kid height and lets the classroom stand in for the country outside it, where actual elections happen only within the Communist Party and ordinary citizens have no equivalent vote to cast. The humor is real, but so is the discomfort of watching children learn manipulation as a civic skill. Made for the Why Democracy series, the film uses one small vote to ask what democracy actually trains people to become.