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這是一個關於我母親的故事。她出生在一個傳統的農村社會與年代，但卻是個很不傳統的女性。

她是擔任牽亡陣紅頭法師的女同志，興趣是抽煙、打牌，還有收集檳榔盒上的清涼美女圖。

七歲那年的我發現媽媽愛的是女人，現在妹妹七歲的女兒問我：「阿姨，阿嬤係查埔還是查某ㄟ？」

這個答案很長，於是我只好拍一部片來回答她。

This is a story about my mother. While she was born into a traditional agricultural society, she is not traditional at all. She is a lesbian and a Taoist priest that leads “Din Tao" parades at funerals. She enjoys smoking, playing poker cards, and collecting pictures of scantily dressed women printed on betel nut boxes.

When I was seven years old, I found out that my mother is attracted to women. Now my seven-year-old niece has also asked, “Auntie, is grandma a boy or a girl?"

My answer is so long that I decided to make a documentary for my niece.

Note: According to folk religion (mostly based on Taoism) in Taiwan, people turn into ghosts when they die. The deceased good people will be taken to the Pure Land of the Buddha Amitabha in the West, while villains will be condemned to hell and tried. The “Kan Mong" singing-dance parade, a kind of “small play" in traditional Chinese Opera, is performed at funerals. At funerals, “red-head priests" would use religious instruments to evoke the gods, who would then lead the deceased through the inferno to the Pure Land.

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