After four decades, a group of veteran singers gather together again. The songs they wrote when they were young had once changed the fate of the island. However, time took away their youth and changed the island's soul. Not only a new national identity has formed but so many new music genres have emerged since then. Can the innocent songs they sang back in the old days still be related to the new era?
Direction
Hou Chi-jan lets silence and wrinkled faces do the talking
Sound
The original recordings vs. their aged voices—devastating
Director
Hou Chi-jan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
These musicians were underground heroes during Taiwan's martial law era; their music was literally banned as subversive.
The film quietly asks whether protest art expires when its revolution succeeds—or fails.
TW
