Four 20-year-olds meet while evading a job at factories. Recruitment via TikTok proved to be more reliable than in the labor market. They join a world-class company, which offers meals and bedding. Here the young workers engage in intense labor and emotional output, only to be replaced eventually.

They shuttle between the restaurant and dorms, killing time in mobile games and online gambling. Earning $22 for cleaning 236 tables. Those who have never been loved have to perform passion for strangers.

Our film captures how their youth is both theirs and desired by the assembly line. In the manufacturing hub, the system hides economic inequality with sophistication. The third generation of migrant workers tries to escape, from Haidilao to bars, only to fail. They despise the system but are shaped by algorithms. With nothing but their bodies as tools, how will they stride toward the future before their youth runs out?