WU Hsiang-hui, a class leader at Taipei Municipal Chien Kuo High School, is everyone’s star student, expected to excel. But in his final year, love and witnessing a senior’s breakdown shake his faith in the education system. Questioning the education system, he rejects the exam and chooses to enter society instead. Adapted from the bestselling novel of the same name, the film became an instant sensation and a milestone in Taiwanese student and youth cinema. Director HSU Chin-liang (TCHII Ching-long) captured a generation’s voice with new actors. Decades later, its restored version returns to the screen. The questions about the system still resonate with today’s students and their anxieties about the exams.