For her debut feature Finding Sayun 不一樣的月光 Atayal director Chen Chiehyao 陳潔瑤 returns to her home village to unearth the legend of Sayun sometimes spelled Sayion an Atayal girl who fell to her death in a turbulent stream while carrying a Japanese teachers belongings at the end of World War II The movie begins when the tale of Sayun draws a television crew to the Atayal hamlet of Tyohemg 金岳 in Nanao Township 南澳 Yilan County Yukan Tsao Shihhui 曹世輝 a highschool boy and a young hunter does not understand the crew members interest in the story But his grandfathers Chang Chinchen 張金振 memories of Sayun whom he went to school with revives his interest in the old tribal village which the villagers had been forced to desert 50 years prior