This generation lives in unprecedented prosperity—yet bears crushing anxiety. Degrees no longer guarantee jobs, cities offer no home, and loneliness fills every crowded feed.

This Youth Day, no role models. Just ourselves. From Geng Jun’s young workers in Hegang to a high school girl’s last escape in Chaoshan, from a failed art student stealing his father’s car to a computer science major drifting through nihilism—10 films, 10 predicaments, 10 departures.

Youth shouldn’t be measured only by survival. This Youth Day, find yourself in cinema. Find each other.