The film depicts people with dignity and self-respect, most of whom are trying to live decently under increasing pressures. The film is well made, and most competently directed. It is a film with a message, aimed at community leaders and government in Vanuatu, advocating contraception. In Vanuatu, as in a number of other Pacific countries, population growth is an extremely serious problem. Fifty percent of the population is under eighteen.
Community leaders find it difficult to deal with the issue of contraception.
Only in the last three or four years have the old begun to feel overwhelmed by the young in Vanuatu, but already the pressures on the old are becoming more and more difficult to bear. Jo Dorras, one of the members of Wan Smolbag Theatre, who wrote the screenplay, addresses many of the problems of life in the settlements. It illustrates the inadequacies of plumbing and other services. It alludes to the problems at the hospital caused by inadequate staffing and facilities and by indifference. It shows young men drinking homebrew, and watching pornographic videos screened in the settlements.