For the Children

In the parched desert landscape of northwest China, peasant Zhang Meili founds a school, determined to give her students a chance at a better life. When Xia Yu, a cultured volunteer teacher from Beijing arrives to help her out, these two women from strikingly different backgrounds discover that they share the same goal: to help a generation of disadvantaged children overcome a legacy of poverty and lost opportunities with the most precious and valuable gift there is: education. (cduniverse.com)