After the destructions that where caused by the tsunami, the insulars of an Indian archipelago are rolled over by another surge of ruination: the flood of international aid organizations, which pluck this premodern civilisation into the 21st century. The film depicts the partially heroic attempts of the Nicobareses, to live in this world without drowning.

A recessionary tapestry of the rural communities of Gort and Crusheen in the west of Ireland. A newly-built motorway carves through their land, causing the areas' inhabitants to reflect on the misuse of natural resources, the value of memory, and the impermanence of their own existence.