In Beijing, wages are low and but rents have skyrocketed. Many Beijingers have few options left.

And thus a strange underworld was born: long corridors leading to tiny underground rooms, in basements originally designed as bomb shelters.

They house a city within a city. And within this city, a tribe of people are forced to live like rats.

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