 Pepe is a young Samoan. He has two mentors, who represents two opposite paths. One is Toasa, the senior chief of Pepe s village, an elder powerful and wise in the ancient way of his people. He is Pepe s  conscience . The other is Tagata, the city-bred dwarf, street smart, bold and cheeky, but condemned by his stature to be an oddity, a flying fox  with an eagle in the gut . Tagata is Pepe s  other  side. Pepe sees his life as a constant set of choices, personified in both Toasa and Tagata; tradition and modernity, rural and urban, communal and individual. Torn between this paradox, he embarks on a life of defiance against his father s unholy trinity of  God, Money, and Success  only to find that the precepts and responsibilities Toasa had taught him are impossible to practise.