Taiwan Soul

The stains of Bach’s solo cello and the voice of narrator CHENG Wen-Tang take us back to 1989, stirring up memories of CHENG Nan-Jung and the Freedom Era Weekly Magazine office where he burned himself to death. At 9:05 AM on April 7, CHENG Nan-Jung’s charred body declared his resolve to contribute himself to this land and his love for the people. The activist thinker CHENG Nan-Jung opened up many new directions for Taiwan on the road to freedom. Through this film we come to understand why it is that CHENG’s death has had such a tremendous and lasting influence on Taiwanese society.