When mainland China fell into enemy hands, two million soldiers and civilians followed the Nationalist government to the small and unfamiliar island of Taiwan. Here they came face to face with the island's inhabitants, who were still frightened and reeling from Japanese colonization and the Chinese government's bloody suppression in the February 28 Incident in 1947.
大陸淪陷，二百萬軍民隨著國民政府來到陌生的小島台灣，和剛剛才從日本殖民與國府「二二八事件」血腥鎮壓中驚魂甫定的島民迎面相交。