Plot Summary:The Last Pupil is a contemporary drama reflecting the challenges faced by both students and teachers in rural Northeast China. Teacher Li and her colleagues are teachers in a remote village school with a dwindling student population. To make more efficient use of resources, their school board has decided to combine underutilized village schools and the teachers are given the opportunity to move along with their few remaining students to a bigger school at the township. However, facing financial pressures, the last remaining pupil cannot afford to go to the big school thus Teacher Li sacrifices her chance for career advancement and chooses to stay with the last pupil at the village. What will happen to Teacher Li and her last student?