La fuerza aérea, el teniente Harris, comienza a volar a Boa Boa, a bordo del Reverendo Mitchell, con una caja que contiene una parte de una llave extraterrestre de alto secreto. Se pierden en una tormenta sobrenatural y se encuentran después de un aterrizaje de emergencia en una especie de triángulo de las Bermudas, a 5,000 millas de su curso. Otra vez en casa, nadie cree la historia de Harris, y su tripulación lo niega con sospecha. Harris es lanzado a la cárcel, pero logra escapar. Junto con la hija de Mitchell, busca la parte perdida de la llave y su secreto.
Robert J. Flaherty's South Seas follow-up to Nanook of the North is a Gauguin idyll moved by "pride of beauty... pride of strength."
A black-and-white short film about Heiva, a Tahitian folklore festivity.
A quiet island, lost in the pacific ocean. Nothing worth of interest, until the day a stroke of luck, phosphate, provided by the island's coral core, led the country to incredible heights: in 1975, it became the second richest country per inhabitant in the world after Saudi Arabia... Only to plunge into ruins a few years later.
New Zealand hip-hop artist Che Fu and his father Tigi Ness travel to their island homeland Niue for the first time to unravel the shared histories. There they also wow the locals with a performance at the Niue Arts and Cultural Festival.
For the 'Are'are people of the Solomon Islands, the most valued music is that of the four types of panpipe ensembles. With the exception of slit drums, all musical instruments are made of bamboo; therefore the general word for instruments and the music performed with them is "bamboo" ('au). This film shows the making of panpipes, from the cutting the bamboo in the forest to the making of the final bindings. The most important part of the work consists in shaping each tube to its necessary length. Most 'Are'are panpipe makers measure the length of old instruments before they shape new tubes. Master musician 'Irisipau, surprisingly, takes the measure using his body, and adjusts the final tuning by ear. For the first time we can see here how the instruments and their artificial equiheptatonic scale-seven equidistant degrees in an octave-are practically tuned.