Like no other film before, China Blue is a powerful and poignant journey into the harsh world of sweatshop workers. Shot clandestinely, this is a deep-access account of what both China and the international retailers don't want us to see: how the clothes we buy are actually made.

Following a pair of denim jeans from birth to sale, China Blue links the power of the U.S. consumer market to the daily lives of a Chinese factory owner and two teenaged female factory workers: Jasmine and her friend. Jasmine is one of million, often very young factory workers, that swap their life on the countryside for factory life, hoping they can help their family with their factory salaries. She works as a thread cutter in a jeans factory and lives with her friends on the factory plant, with 12 girls in one room. The rent and the money for meals is deducted from their salaries. In her diary, Jasmine writes about her daily life: the work, the terrible food and her homesickness.

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