- Beginning of the journey in Bora-Bora: Tiga meets Teva Victor (the sculptor) and they have a boat tour to the islet where Teva shows her some stone statues: then they go snorkeling among the rays and the little sharks.After that they take an airplane to Papeete and make an excursion to a rive, Teva needs a stone for sculpture.Back to Papeete they cross the "Jardin de l'Assemblée" where they see a sculpture of Teva, buy some fruits in the market and arrive at the workshop of Teva.On the next day Tifa meets Rooger Tetuanui, a musician at the "Marché Municipal", Tiga buys "monoi oils for her friends, Roger buys pork meat and bananas: then they look at the urban art and participate in a cult in a Protestant church.Later they arrive at Roger's house: Yéla Liao , Roger's wife and Raumata Tetuanui , the 15 years old daughter receive Tiga; Raumata is also musician and singer.they travel to Taravao : Roger and Raumata sing some songs.On the next day Tiga pays a visit to Maeva Shelton: she meets there Mama Tina and Uncle Louis who are preparing an earth oven cooking (pork and goat meat): Tiga helps to prepare bunches of leaves that are used to cover the oven.On the morning Petit Louis has climbed a coconut-tree to harvest and then Meva and her guests can open the earth oven and eat the cooked food. After that Tiga travels to Pirae where she meets Tiaré Trompette (head of the dance and singing group Hei Tahiti: Tiga puts a pareo and dances with the group a traditional Tahitian dance.Then Tiga meets the costumer Freeddy "Star" Fagu who is preparing the flower costumes of the dancers and there is a spectacle of traditional Tahitian dances.After that Tiga meets Nicolas Buray (Observatoire des requins de Polynésie): they take a boat and they make scuba diving among the sharks (French Polynesia has banned the fishing of sharks and has become a huge shark sanctuary).Later Tiga travels to Moorea where she meets Laurence Anzai, the French woman who manages a little cafe and they go to the Bay of Cook where the daughter of Laurence is rowing the Polynesian canoe: they meet young boys and girls who are training under the supervision of Thibaut Cattiau (a former athlete): Tiga see how they are rowing and then participates in a six persons canoe. Besides we see zooms about the Polynesian women (the postcards, the female entrepreneur, the female sailor), about the tiare flowers and the coconut oil (monoi oil), about flowers growing at Moorea, about the use of the flowers in the traditional Tahitian ceremonies, about the spearfishing (Vehia and Rohan), about the vineyard of Rangiroa, about the Brando hotel in Tetiaroa and the sea turtles and about the trucks (transformed trucks into buses ).—zutterjp48
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