周一的全校大会上，班金初当着全校师生的面做国旗下的演讲，寥寥几分钟回溯着过往来自命运的戏弄。父母早亡，外公外婆被大骨节病折磨，身为家中长女的她承受了这个年纪本不该有的压力。而当上漏下湿的房屋叹息着贫困的悲哀，她依然固执地期盼走出大山，成为一名教师，日后回报家乡。

At the school gathering on Monday, Ban Jinchu gives a speech under the national flag in front of all teachers and students. For a few minutes, she recalls her suffering in the past. Her parent died during her childhood, and her grandparents are tortured by the Kaschin-Beck disease. As the eldest daughter of the family, she is under the pressure that shall not have at her age. With the leaked and wet house with sorrowness and poverty, she still sticks to the dreaming of walking out of the mountains and becomes a teacher when grown-up and returns her hometown in the future.