My father was a landowner’s son and an ex-Kuomintang Air Force pilot, who remained in mainland China after 1949. For survival, he tried to transform himself from a man of the ‘old society’ to a man of the ‘new society’. As his son, I started investigating his ‘history before 1949’, which he had kept away from me. This film documents the process of my investigation over twenty years.

我父親，一個地主的兒子，前國民黨空軍飛機駕駛員，1949年後留在大陸，為了生存，他努力從一個「舊社會的人」變為「新社會的人」。我作為兒子，進入父親對我一直隱瞞的「1949年前歷史」的調查，其中伴隨我和他之間的故事回憶，種種過程，像竹筍一樣被一層層剝開，經歷20年終於完成。