“Savage” is a collective term used by the artist to refer to lonely townspeople after the war in Taiwan, who have adhered to the stories of absolute silence and fear passed down from one generation to another. The savages who strived to survived in the tumultuous era appeared in different forms: the work starts with a Taiwanese deserter in the Southeast Asian region, then moves onto a hunter who leaves civilization behind to live in the mountains, and ends with a town mayor who is sent for imprisonment on Green Island. The work portrays their individual mysterious, sorrowful survival skills and absolute taboos buried in their solitude and silence. They underwent the periods of the Japanese rule, WWI and the era before the lifting of martial law in Taiwan, and experienced various battles and terrors that permeated their times. At the end, they could only say to their offspring, “the past is all forgotten, so, do not ask.”