• Producer(s):

    SYSTEM TV, ARTE FRANCE

  • Territories:

    Worldwide.

  • Production year:

    2012

  • Language(s):

    French

  • Rights:

    TV, DVD, NON-THEATRICAL, INTERNET, VOD

In the South-East of the Philippines, Palawan was for decades the dumping ground for those the authorities considered undesirables : plague victims, prostitutes and prisoners.

Today their descendants make up the population and it’s also the ‘home-in-exile’ of the Badajos the so-called ‘Sea Gypsies’. In 2008, a typhoon destroyed many of their houses built on stilts in the sea. Since then some have been relocated to dry land and are unhappy their formally nomadic existence is now restricted.