The Yapese people, residents of Micronesian island Yap, know about the western ways as tourism hit the island a while ago. Elsewhere, the Yanomami still celebrate ancient customs and rituals, but life as they know it is being threatened.

Very often, identity is connected with ancestry, origin, and cultural heritage. How people, who have to live in different conditions than they would wish for, adapt to change, can be witnessed in different societies.