Kuo Ming-cheng, a retired teacher from Puli Vocational Senior High School, is a descendant of Chief Mona Rudao, leader of the Wushe rebellion against the Japanese colonial forces. Yet before going to senior high school he had never heard of this incident, and he knew little about his ancestors 'heroic history of resistance.
甫自埔里高工教職退休的郭明正，是領導原住民大規模武裝抗日的「霧社事件」英雄莫那魯道的子裔，不過，高中前沒聽過霧社事件的他，對於祖先對抗國家力量的英勇歷史了解並不深。