Across the Third Mainland Bridge from Lagos, Nigeria, roughly three hundred thousand people live in Makoko, a settlement of houses on stilts and canoe-width waterways founded two centuries ago by Egun fishermen from Badagry and Benin. The film follows residents through the six districts that have grown from that original fishing camp, showing daily life built entirely around water: children paddling to school, women selling smoked fish from boats, carpenters repairing stilts before the lagoon rots them out. City officials call the settlement an eyesore that damages Lagos's image as an economic hub, and the film recounts the 2012 demolition order that tore down waterfront stilt-houses beyond the power lines with little warning, leaving families homeless. Interviews with residents balance that official view with their own account of Makoko as a functioning community with its own economy, churches, and schools. The documentary treats the settlement neither as a disaster story nor a curiosity, but as a place where three hundred thousand people have built ordinary lives on water nobody else wanted.