Madagascar's coasts and highlands provide the backdrop for three portraits woven together in this episode of the Somewhere on Earth series. Elysée, a botany student, tracks the island's baobabs, the swollen-trunked trees found almost nowhere else on the planet. Soloda belongs to a community of sea nomads who build their lives on boats and the shallow waters they fish. Gilles, a committed nature enthusiast, leads the way into Madagascar's mountain interior, where the terrain shifts from red laterite plains to forested peaks. The camera work favors wide landscape shots and close observation of daily tasks, cooking, boat-building, plant collecting, over narration-heavy exposition, letting the three subjects' routines carry the story of how people adapt to an island shaped by isolation. Along the way the film touches on the erosion visible across the so-called Red Island and the pressure it puts on both farmland and the baobab groves. It is a travelogue built from specific lives rather than a general survey, with each subject standing in for one way of living with Madagascar's landscape.