* * * Before dawn, the little boy's mother-Pei-ling-goes out into the darkness and sets off slowly on her motor scooter on the one-and-a-half-hour journey to the factory where she works in Hsichih, a town to the northeast of Taipei.
凌晨，小男孩的母親佩玲在天色未亮的時分步出家門，騎上摩托車往工廠的路途緩緩駛去。