The writer Hsi Hsi describes the feelings of a sick person and inserts lots of information about medical treatment, calmly and sensibly describing the inexorable distance between those who are ill and those who treat them.
作者西西從一個病人的心情出發，穿插豐富的醫療知識，理智而冷靜地描繪出「病」與「醫」之間不可避免的隔閡。