Taking and passing the civil service exams, they elected to start their new careers in Penghu, where life was more simpler. The two were assigned to different posts as administrative workers in police stations on the main is land of Penghu and the outer island of Wang-an, and for a year they would ride boats back and forth between the two is lands to see each other.
在職場上遭過挫折的兩人，參加公職考試，刻意選擇分發到這個單純的地方重新出發。兩個人分別被分派在澎湖本島和離島望安兩個島上，從此展開一年海上往返的家庭生活。