WHEN A CITY RISES follows a 21-year-old student, a teenage couple, and a young father of two in their impossible fight for democracy. Relationships break and form amidst tear gas and rubber bullets, and across the border, China's People Liberation Army awaits. The work, filmed by a collective of seven Hong Kong filmmakers, invites the audience to live the resistance movement from within and tells a story of hope, love, chaos and solidarity among strangers.