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In the worst of times, they offered their youth and blood to the ideal society.  Nineteen years old, they have no home, no adults, only each other, only youth, and a longing for freedom. Faced with the brutality of the authoritarian regime, the physical wounds can be endured, but how can the wounds of the heart be healed? Adapted from the events at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in November 2019, the protesters who appeared resolute in the media were, beneath their gear, nothing more than helpless teenagers not yet numb to reality.