臺灣島嶼處於太平洋的波浪間，阿美族是南島語族中與海洋互動密切的族群。Makotaay（花蓮港口部落）位於山、河、海交會處，在部落隨時可聽見的「浪聲」，是來自太平洋的氣息，亦是族群共同記憶的迴聲。
1878年，Makotaay經歷反抗清朝的「Cepo’事件」，上百位部落勇士走向死亡的陷阱，遺族則四處離散；日治時期及國民政府來台，殖民主義使得部落主體逐漸被瓦解、語言和土地被迫流失；2011年「封冰箱事件」，族人對於土地不正義之抗議聲浪崛起等等，國家陷阱、歷史幽靈不斷侵擾，唯有浪聲仍舊安撫人心，彷若祖靈的歌聲在山海之間迴盪⋯⋯。

The island of Taiwan sits among the waves of the Pacific Ocean, and on its east coast, where the sea, mountains, and a river converge, is the village of Makotaay. Day and night, you hear the waves, which are the breath of the ocean and the sound of the indigenous locals’ collective memory.
The inner ocean wells up at times too. During the 1878 Cepo’ Incident, over 100 of our people were slaughtered. Later, at the forceful hands of the governments of Japan and the Republic of China, lands and traditions of ours were lost. Then in 2011, the Close Shitiping Movement (during which local indigenous people blocked the entrance to the Shitiping Scenic Area) was organized to make our voices heard, like the waves of the ocean, as part of our attempt to achieve justice for our land. The snares set by the government and ghosts of the past continually harassed us, but the enduring sound of the waves was a comfort, as if the sounds of our ancestors singing were reverberating among the sea and mountains.