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At the intersection of Hsichih Shin-tai Rt. 5 and N. 2 highway is an aborigine village. The Amis from Huadong named this new home in Taipei "Huadong New Village."

The youths came to the city from their hometown with dreams. At the margin where cities connect, they found place for temporary settlement. So they started their own family and lived on for a couple of years. The next generation grows, life becomes harder, and their dreams still seem unreachable.

It's said that the "house fairies" lives and dies with the master. Once the master leaves, the fairies perish in the empty house. And without the fairies' guarding, the straw houses back in Huadong slowly break down under the storms.

"Can't get back!" The Amis lightly said.

Text Source: Taiwan Int'l Ethnographic Film Festival
http://www.tieff.sinica.edu.tw/ch/2003/part3/2003film/english-c2.html