Having seen Teng Hsiang-yang's Dana Sakura (a drama series about the Wushe Incident), Kuo Ming-cheng began to seek his roots more than ten years ago. He started calling on old people who had lived through those years and digging through dusty old records, and little by little he unearthed previously unknown stories about the Wushe Incident.
受到《風中緋櫻》作者鄧相揚的影響，十幾年前，為了尋根，郭明正開始拜訪遺老、鑽進大批塵封的典籍，一步一步挖掘出原先不為人知的霧社事件遺緒。