Kiritimati, also called Christmas Island, sits in the Pacific as part of the Republic of Kiribati and holds the record for largest land area of any coral atoll on Earth, about 322 square kilometers ringing a lagoon of nearly the same size. Director Wojciech Hupert films the island's daily rhythms: fishermen working the flats known worldwide for bonefishing, birds crowding a designated wildlife sanctuary, and a coastline where the water is visibly closing in on homes and roads. Because Kiritimati sits in the world's farthest-forward time zone, UTC+14, it is among the first inhabited places to see each new day, a detail the film uses to frame an island that may not last to see many more years pass. Older residents recall the British and American nuclear tests conducted here in the late 1950s and early 1960s, when no evacuation was ordered. Locals still call the place 'the Paradise,' and the film spends more time on that stubborn affection than on catastrophe, following how people keep living, working, and raising families on ground the ocean is slowly taking back.