Complicit (2017) Synopsis

The audience takes an 8000-mile journey to the world's electronics factory floors, revealing the situations under which China's youth population has shifted by the millions in search of a better life. Yi Yeting faces seemingly insurmountable and dangerous challenges, battling to survive occupational leukemia, while helping young workers form smartphone factories in similar situations, poisoned by benzene and n-hexane. Yi brings his fight against benzene - from his hospital room, where he helps other workers, to Silicon Valley and the international stage.—Heather White

The audience takes an 8000-mile journey to the world's electronics factory floors, revealing the situations under which China's youth population has shifted by the millions in search of a better life. Yi Yeting faces seemingly insurmountable and dangerous challenges, battling to survive occupational leukemia, while helping young workers form smartphone factories in similar situations, poisoned by benzene and n-hexane. Yi brings his fight against benzene - from his hospital room, where he helps other workers, to Silicon Valley and the international stage.—Heather White

Published Time: 2022-07-04 02:18:15