About the film

Wildlife filmmakers, a zoo director, ecotourism hosts, a Rastafarian chef, a Civil War descendant, Mennonites, and Afro-Caribbeans are among the fascinating assortment of people in this illuminating documentary who have taken a leap into the unknown and found belonging in Belize. All have discovered the freedom to live the way they choose in Belize, a country made inviting by its wilderness, diverse ecosystem, natural beauty, and thriving yet endangered rainforest. The untamed nature of the land and the multicultural society provide fertile soil for these creative iconoclasts to flourish. Threaded throughout these profiles, director Alexandra Lexton muses on the internal voyage of the wanderer... themes of leaving home to find home and letting go of the known for a truer, unexpected resonance with place and people and purpose. The lives glimpsed here reflect a universal longing for something meaningful and real, the desire to seek and find the right place to root and thrive.