The Bajau have lived on boats across the waters between Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines for generations, moving with the tides rather than any fixed address. The film follows Asli and his family, among the last holdouts still refusing to settle on land even as the three nations tighten their maritime borders and press the Bajau toward citizenship papers they have never needed before. Their own phrase for it, "rilaut kaalumman ta," translates roughly to dedicating one's life to the sea, and the film treats that as a literal description rather than a metaphor: fishing grounds double as home, school, and cemetery. Interviews and on-water footage show a family caught between two systems that don't recognize each other, a centuries-old way of reading reefs and currents, and a modern border regime that requires paperwork the Bajau have no way to produce. What emerges is a portrait of statelessness that has nothing to do with war or exile, and everything to do with borders drawn on water.