The main theme of the play focusses on the Social Realism during the Malayan Emergency :

The process of Malayanisation was taking off in the late 1950s and the Ministry of Culture, established in 1959 with S.Rajaratnam as the Minister of Culture, was promoting Bahasa Melayu through the 'Use National Language' campaign. The fervour of the students in National Language Class to learn and adopt Bahasa Melayu as the 'national language' of Malaya in place of other languages, illuminates the social and political significance of language due to its relation to culture and identity. The embrace of Bahasa Melayu by non-malay communities as their national language in Singapore was seen to embody their determination to sever their cultural and political loyalties to China (often referred to as the Motherland) for the creation of a new Malayan culture, now regarded as their homeland.

In a situation where Malaysian political leaders inherited political power rather than won it by force, it was in debates on national culture that some of the most intense stuggle for independence occurred. They questioned the capacity of the English language to weld polyglot communities into a multi-racial whole, they questioned the nature of 'multi-racialism' itself. The alternative reconstructions of national identity- through education, art, performance, literature, the most important was the reformulation of the Malay as the singular idiom of public life, and the processes of social and political change which underlaid this, that finally defeated the colonial project. Yet the new ways in which colonial power was wielded left a deep impression in the political imagination of Malaya. The devices of colonial state building became tools to plague their inventors' head.

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