Dust in the Wind is the true story of Wu's first love. When the male lead spends his military service on an outer island, his innocent girlfriend ends up marrying the postman who day after day delivers his love letters. Hill of no Return, on the other hand, is a story from the Japanese era about the tragic lives of Wu's mining ancestors.
《戀戀風塵》有吳念真初戀的記憶，男主角在當兵駐防外島的那一年，青梅竹馬的女友嫁給了每天來送信的郵差；《無言的山丘》則是日據時代、祖先翻山過嶺前來開礦的悲情命運。