The story begins with the ancient tribal chief Buta leading his people to climb through the mountains, wishing to find a new place to live and to build a new tribe. Once in the cloud and the heavy fog, Buta gets lost and finds himself being an intruder in a demolished urban tribe in the modern time.
In the modern city, another Atayal (Taiwanese aborigine), Taqun, – who is the Minister of the Council of Indigenous Peoples – is facing a dilemma on the government's decision to demolish the indigenous tribes in the cities. Feeling helpless and hopeless, Taqun goes to one of the demolished tribes. Unfortunately, an accident leaves him in coma.
Waiting for Taqun's to wake up from his coma, Taqun's brother Yukan starts a series of conversations with the lost spirit, Buta. Their words will bring the viewers to a long forgotten world – a world of the modern indigenous people's lives in the city, a world of their unique philosophy, and a world of another culture……
在古泰雅部落中，為了族人生存問題，帶著族人在雲霧山中遷徙飄浪、尋找新住地的頭目「BUDA」，他在一次雲霧中，誤入現代一座拆遷的城市。
而現代城市中一名泰雅族「原民局局長—達袞」，因為縣府拆遷原住民違建問題，在行政體系中左右為難，充滿無力。在原民部落被怪手粗魯摧毀後，達袞滿懷歉意的到部落中，他在難過的情緒下，不幸遭受意外昏迷臥病。於是，昏迷臥病的達袞與BUDA，開始展開一連串的對話。在對話中導引出一段原住民族在現代社會中的生活樣貌與特有原住民文化與哲學意涵。全片故事繞著這段特殊的對話情節，抽絲剝繭的引領觀眾，進入另一段文化的故事裡……。
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