The book describes the lives of destitute Aborigines working in the lower echelons of physical labor and living in illegal shanty towns, a problem that even now exists in many parts of Taiwan-in Taipei County alone there are Hsichou Village, Huanho Village and Sanying Village-but in the book market it's nearly impossible to find material about them. Instead, this little children's book has become a mouthpiece for the aspirations of the urban Aborigine.
書中描寫的原住民流落都市從事底層體力勞動工作、居住在貧民窟般的違建聚落中的生活，至今仍存在台灣許多地方，光是台北縣就有溪洲部落、環河部落、三鶯部落等，但書市中卻幾乎找不到一本相關書籍，反倒小小一本童書，成了「都原」心聲的代言者。