He made it in memory of his father, who had strong sentiments about the Japanese, but he was writing about that entire generation. "They received Japanese educations," he explains, "and then overnight had to become Chinese. Fundamentally, they had problems identifying with the land of their ancestors."
雖然是紀念吳念真帶有強烈日本情結的父親，但他說，其實，「我在寫我父親那一代的男人，他們受的是日本教育，而在一夜之間必須變成中國人，基本上，這群人對祖國的認同是有問題的。」