China is the first country in the world to classify Internet addiction as a clinical disorder. Electronic Heroin features a Beijing treatment center where Chinese teenagers are being deprogrammed, and follows the story of three boys from the day they arrive at the center, to their three-month treatment period, and their long awaited return home. The film provides a microcosm of modern Chinese life and investigates one of the symptoms of the Internet age.
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