從家族記憶的言述，展開一段漫長的菲律賓戰爭史。1930年代，菲律賓政府啟動一項大型殖民移墾計劃，原本以穆斯林和原住民定居者為主的島嶼民答那峨，湧入大量的基督徒移墾者定居，將近一世紀的戰火從此燃起，未曾停歇。出生當地的導演 Arumpac，母系家族是基督徒，父系家族則是穆斯林，兩個家族彼此為生存奮戰，也將腳下的土地視為永遠的家鄉。「戰爭本質是什麼？」Arumpac舉起攝影機，在大歷史敘事的洪流中，以影像開闢一條新的路徑，實驗性的敘事風格，隱晦幽微的情感流動，宛如一本以影像書寫的短篇小說，透過重寫家族記憶、認同與情感，描繪戰火下人的生存處境。

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Director Adjani Arumpac tells the troubled history of her home of Mindanao, the second-largest and southernmost island of the Philippines, by looking at the lives of two of her ancestors: "Modesto, a Christian; and Macaurog, a Muslim, were both good husbands and fathers and grandfathers. For their family, they were gentle providers and fierce protectors. But their very survival makes up for the endless war in that land they both call home. My forefathers were pawns in a vicious sport by the colonial and, now, neocolonial powers. Modesto had the courage to move and settle. Macaurog had the strength to stay. Theirs is a fight for respite. But this narrative has been buried under decades of mainstream media misrepresentation as a war drenched only and only in violence and blood, wherein the men and women are rendered only as statistics — faceless and nameless."

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