1960年代台灣鄉間，失蹤許久的父親，好不容易重回家庭與妻女團聚，卻因為政治暴力的創傷，引發各種在家人無法接受的怪異行為，包括突如其來的暴怒、沈默寡言、心不在焉、幻想有人跟蹤⋯⋯等等症狀，回來的不是父親，而是一具殘破的廢人。而父親所經歷的痛辱，亦無法與家人分享。《黑風箏》從一名七歲女孩的視角，帶領觀眾回到那個純樸可愛、卻也瀰漫著政治高壓的一九六Ｏ年代。

At the end of WWII, the Nationalist party of Republic of China, also known as the Kuomintang (KMT), took control of Taiwan and imposed martial law for 38 years. This period is known as the White Terror, where anyone suspected go being a Communist agent was hunted down. Through a 7-year-old girl’s point of view, The Black Kite brings us back to the innocent, yet high-handed time of the 1960s Taiwan.