Down on the banks of the Maroni River little Derreck dreams of heroic warriors Hes a member of the Wayana tribe in French Guyana In this film Derreck is not our only portal into another world His sister Sylvana also dreams of an impossible love who belongs to a different tribe Their grandmother Malilou takes us back to her youth in the 1950s It seems that everyone wanders off now and again into a parallel at times almost ghostly world Whereas the youngest members of the tribe can still lose themselves in boundless flights of fantasy the older generation contemplates more existential questions How do dreams of the future relate to identity What makes you a real Wayana