Digging beneath the skin. What it’s really like to grow up in this secretive state?
How can a country considered one of the most powerful on the planet, with the world’s largest population, still be so unknown? We all have ideas about life in China, but what really goes on there?
Documentary filmmaker Billie JD Porter finds out what’s it like to grow up in the state and what happens if you challenge the status quo. Love and liberty in modern China are investigated in this eye-opening documentary.
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