Youth holds a nearly unmatched power, which, miraculously, is derived from its very transience and immutability. Set against the backdrop of 1980s Taiwan, From Tomorrow, I Will Be a Happy Person takes us into the youth of democracy itself, a time when societal values were undergoing one transformation after another. Clashing with one era, the protagonists of the democracy movement helped to usher in the next, but what would they become once their youthful vitality was spent? What kind of adults would they be after sacrificing their youth to fuel the fires in which a new society was forged? These questions are a painful process of introspection, and point to an understanding that only comes in hindsight.