Their concept for the play came from assisting the CCPD to do a Taiwan-wide survey of drama troupes. They discovered that the past flourishing of puppetry in Tainan had by the time of the survey become desolate, with some companies existing only in name and others being "one man shows."
他們作戲的靈感來自協助文建會作全省劇團普查時，發現台南當年布袋戲戲風鼎盛，如今卻凋零大半，許多劇團有名無實，或成了「一人劇團」。