Following a childhood accident, 24-year-old Xiao Yang lost her left leg, changing the course of her life, “setting her apart from others,” as she shares in Run and Run, a short film charting her life, her ambitions as a journalist, and her relationship.

As a fashion blogger with over 170,000 follows on RED (Xiaohongshu), a social media and e-commerce platform in China, Xiao Yang utilizes her platform not only to express herself but to champion and empower others in the disabled community.

Once vulnerable regarding her prosthetic leg, Xiao Yang now owns it as a form of jewelry she can wear, much like the version she is seen wearing in the film created by Chinese jewellery designer YVMIN. “Truthfully, I don’t know what it means to feel self-confident,” she expresses in the film. “Maybe you need to learn to appreciate yourself first, and look in the mirror — you look pretty good today.”