When her homeland fell, she fled south with her father. The journey was arduous, and she was separated from her mother. Her father died of illness along the way, and she made her way alone to Yunnan, where, amid the flames of war, she met the love of her life.
War kept them apart. Her beloved followed the army to Burma, then crossed the sea to Taiwan after the civil war, while she stayed behind on the mainland. The War of Resistance, the civil war, land reform, the Cultural Revolution, reform and opening up... The dust of history crushed the years. Through all her suffering, she held on to a promise that he would return, while across the strait he gazed toward his old home.
After half a century spent longing for each other, the strait remained impossible to cross. By the time they reunited, their hair had turned white. Going home meant returning to one's roots, but it was also keeping a long-awaited promise that had crossed mountains and seas.
