Wit the full support of his wife, who is a teacher, Hsu moved with her and their two sons back to his native Taitung, to set up a farm on land owned by his family. But he found that the dense mountain forest he remembered from his childhood had been cut down long ago and the last traces of the animals that had lived in this habitat were gradually disappearing.
在擔任教職的太太全力支持下，夫妻倆帶著兩個兒子搬回故鄉台東，在自家土地上經營農場，卻發現林道生態因過度砍伐，童年記憶中的茂密山林早已無處可尋，原本棲息在林道的動物也漸漸失去了蹤跡。