This film follows the hardships two girls of the Lahu ethnic minority face as they come down from the hills of their people to enroll at a Chinese primary school.  The Chinese students laugh at the Lahu students, who finish last in races and on tests.  One girl falls ill and is sent home; another finds out her mother has run away.  The girls' teacher feels frustrated and hopeless; the school principal wishes he had never admitted them.  Can the Lahu girls make it in modern-day China?  And what price will they have to pay?  Do Chinese schools empower or assimilate China's minority children?  Children of Blessing takes a controversial stance on this ever sensitive question.