After growing up in this area, Ke left to find work as he came of age, then returned after retirement to care for his aging parents. Though he recalls leading a complete childhood there, the unsavory images of the profusion of vagrants and prostitutes left him with mixed emotions about Snake Alley.
在此長大、成年後出外工作，直到退休才返家照顧年邁雙親的柯得隆，對曾是游民、流鶯四竄，形象不佳，但卻充滿童年記憶的華西街有著愛恨交織的情感。