Three friends set out in August 2014 to walk the length of Borneo, an island split between Malaysia, Indonesia, and Brunei, on a route that runs 2,250 kilometers over 137 days. The film follows Nomadic Lion from Tawau in Sabah, around the state's coast, through Brunei, and down the length of Sarawak to Kuching, where they arrive on January 4, 2015. Along the way the footage moves through jungle, beach, and palm oil estates cleared of forest, up the slopes of Mt. Kinabalu, and past cobras and wild boar encountered on the trail. The three stay with indigenous communities across the island, and much of the film is built from those stops: conversations, shared meals, nights in longhouses, the small talk of a journey made on foot rather than by car or boat. There is no central conflict beyond exhaustion and the occasional food shortage; the point of the walk, as the group frames it, is contact with people and places a faster trip would skip. It closes with the pair already planning a longer walk across Asia.