And from that day onward, their tribe is living in the shadow of being the object of revenge by the Japanese. With anger, Tado Mona and his brother Baso Mona attack the policeman. Mona Rudao's first son, Tado Mona, offers wine to the policeman with gusto, but is in return beaten up because his hands were considered not clean enough. At the same time, a newly appointed Japanese policeman goes on his inspection tour to this tribe. Sometime between autumn and winter 1930, when the slave labor is at its harshest, a young Seediq couple are married and a joyful party is thrown. Mona Rudao, the protagonist, witnessed the repression by the Japanese over a period of 30 years. And these tattoos were seen as the Seediq's traditional belief to transform themselves into Seediq Bale ("true humans"). Above all, they were forbidden to tattoo their faces. Men were subject to harsh labor and kept from traditional hunting whereas women had to serve the Japanese policemen and their families by doing the household work and giving up their traditional weaving work. Plot: During the Japanese rule of Taiwan, the Seediq were forced to lose their own culture and give up their faith.
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