A szélhámos amerikai pilóta, Harris hihetetlen kalandba keveredik, amikor egy repülőt kell átrepítenie a tengerentúlra. A gép titokzatos utasai egy különös ládát kísérnek, amelyben azok a misztikus kőtábla darabok vannak elrejtve, melyeket az istenek rejtettek el az ősidők előtt, s amelyek összerakva isteni tudással bírnak. Hamarosan kiderül, hogy a fedélzeten utazó tudós és Harris is egy összeesküvés áldozata, s amikor valaki kinyitja a ládát, elszabadul a pokol. A tudós fogságba esik, és ő is épp csak megússza a kalandot. Melanie, a tudós szép lánya kérésére azonban hamarosan a rejtély nyomába ered.
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.