Everyday at sunrise she wakes up on a tiny coral island with white sand and coconut trees. She washes clothes and dishes in the sea and puts on her home-made face cream to avoid sunburn. She then walks in shallow turquoise waters during low tide to collect the clams growing on corals for her daily meal… All the while almost constantly singing! She is a young "Sea Gypsy”.

Like the many nomadic, seafaring people living in houseboats on the Malay border with the Philippines, she has learned to live in complete harmony with the sea, managing to survive in the face of poverty and piracy. But this equilibrium that has sustained them for centuries is endangered by the fast changing and threatening world developing around them. We are going to follow this unique moment in their trajectory through the eyes of this young Sea Gypsy. Struggling for survival on this breathtaking paradisiacal island, our protagonist and her sister will be asked by their family to move to the mainland to work to support them. How will she adapt to this hostile new world, away from the sea? Through this overwhelming change in her life and through her personal search for a sense of belonging, we gain insight into the fragile world of the sea gypsies.