If you're a teenager in today's China

YOU GET UP at three in the morning to stand in line for rationed food...

YOU WORK after school and during vacations at dirty, backbreaking "volunteer" jobs...

YOU LEARN to distrust the classmates and friends who might denounce you for "political deviation"...

YOU FORGET your plans for career and marriage when the Party decides how and where you'll live...

After sixteen years, Sansan escaped from Communist China to the U.S.A. Here's the story of how she and her friends struggled to survive under Communists.