A Home Too Far was based on author and historian Po Yang's novel about the struggles of a group of Chinese Nationalist soldiers when they are left behind in the borderlands of Thailand and Burma after mainland China fell into communist hands 4O years ago.
這部根據作家柏楊的小說而拍攝的電影，描寫四十年前大陸變色後流落在泰緬邊境的一群國兵，在異地的奮鬥與掙扎。