When Taubu looks at his twin brother Taubuki, he sees the life he would have led if he had not fallen in love with a Dutch photographer. Living in a self-built wooden house on Kiribati, a tropical island in the Pacific Ocean, the warm days are filled with spearfishing and spontaneous encounters. Instead, Taubu lives in a 1930s house on the edge of the center of Arnhem, with his girlfriend. He places solar panels on roofs and tries to adapt to the Dutch obsession with pushing agendas.
Taubu feels lonely in the Netherlands. He misses his family and finds it difficult to maintain friendships, with appointments often having to be planned well in advance. He longs to return to Kiribati. Taubuki dreams of a life outside Kiribati, an island that will disappear into the ocean at the end of this century, according to the latest climate predictions.