Borneo. Somewhere on the Sulu and Celebes seas there is a community of sea nomads with amazing skills. They live like a fish, spending most of their life on the water. They can walk and hunt on the sea-bed holding their breath for 5 minutes. Their eyes are adapted to focus underwater.  Living freely, they often have no ID’s, no citizenship and obviously no money. Some don’t even know how old they are…  Badjao are ancient masters of the sea pushed to the edge of extinction by the changing forces of the modern world.   While all families can live on their boats for long days, there is a time coming to visit harbour.  For some, it proves to be nerve-wrecking experience…

In the very same town diving industry thrives with thousands of Western tourists arriving to watch coral reefs and rich underwater fauna. In one day you can spot sharks, turtles and mantas. These are one of the best diving spots on the planet, so they say. Every season tourists spend thousands of dollars in luxury resorts – located on paradise islands, ancestral tribal lands of Badjao – but most of them never heard about sea nomads.

Two parallel, contrasting worlds: rich tourist industry and illiterate, neglected Badjao community. These worlds rub against each other, yet they rarely meet. Until…