This movie presents the geologic research results on the stream capture of Tahan River, and its effects on the economy as well as the lives of people. Geologists were interviewed to discuss the years stream capture occurred, and to reconstruct the process of the stream capture of Tahan River. .....

It it is late November in 1936, the blooming season for silver grass. Accompanied by government officials of the Shinchiku Prefecture, Professor Utsurikawa Nenozo and his assistant Miyamoto Nobuto, both members of the Institute of Ethnology at Taihoku Imperial University, arrived at the ceremonial grounds of the Ta’ai Village, which is located in the Wuzhi Mountain of Hsinchu. They came to investigate the Pas-ta’ai ceremony of the Saisiyat. They brought 16 mm film cameras and vividly recorded this large ceremony, which was held in remembrance of the Ta’ai (the pygmies). Entering a new century, .....