"They told him education was the path to freedom—until the war began, and the only lesson left was how to burn it all down."

Eighteen-year-old Aung Min believed in the system. In a Myanmar where bribes decide grades and propaganda fills textbooks, he crammed day and night, desperate to pass the university entrance exams—his only escape from poverty. But when a wealthy student steals his answers and the teacher shrugs—"Life isn’t fair"—Aung’s future collapses.