Based on a true story, Green Rose is about Professor Chen Wen-Chen’s mysterious murder. In 1981, Professor Chen was having difficulties with the Kuo Ming Tang, the Chinese Nationalists party which had had continuous military rule over Taiwan for decades, when at the age of 31, the young professor was suddenly found dead. Director JC Hung, who is same age as Professor Chen at the time of his death, depicts this tragic mystery using filmic language and music, rather than dialogue, to evoke the incident.