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
Complicit follows Yi Yeting, a Chinese workers' rights activist, over three years on his quest to expose the dangerous working conditions in the China's smartphone factories where one worker is poisoned from exposure to toxic materials every five hours.