Tom is a 31 years old sailor who lives permanently on 17m long sailing boat Karaka. He is French but his passport makes him resident of Mayotte -an island in Indian Ocean.
He bought Karaka for 1$ from its owner in Hong Kong. She was destined for scrapyard. He repaired her and started to sail. By “giving” her new life Tom changed his own life.
He first set sail in 2005 and he has never stopped since. Sailing is not a vacation to him, it is his way of life. He decided to live self sustainable way, the way he chooses and not the way he is pressed to live.
Agricultural over exploration, famine, war, slavery and all the unsustainable old ways of life brought us to the point of no return. There must be a “new” way of how humans define our existence. Tom is trying to find this way by living it.
The only permanent crew beside Tom is his girlfriend Kim and their cat.
He sustains the boat by taking crew, for an exchange of a small fee, to sail with him.
So far they have sailed: islands in South East Asia, South China Sea, across the Indian Ocean twice, round the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa, across the Atlantic, up the coast of Brazil, into the Amazon river system, around the Caribbean, through the Panama canal and lately up to the Pacific coast of Mexico. Forty thousand miles later they are going on strong.
All kinds of people come to sail on Karaka; the ones who ask similar questions but also people who at first want just to sail, but being in contact with Tom and his crew they start to realize that “The Change” is not only necessary - it can also be pleasant.
Tom´s choice is contagious to other people, who somehow start to change their own lives, finding their own ways.

New crew members board Karaka. People from all walks of life; adventurers, rich kids who don´t want to be immersed into the “system”, environmentalists, the seekers. Why did they come?
Tom and Kim accept them into the “big family” of the more than 80 people that already cruised on Karaka.
As all those characters share the life on board the ship, the interaction of all the different views, the richness of the lifestyle, the sheers abundance of possibilities - sailing, fishing, playing music, the removal from the accepted norm, makes each reflect about hers/his life choices.
The voyage they make is not just a geographical one.
Will we see new crew members also emerging as a persons who realize they too can make their own choices? Find out what way they can change the world into a place they feel comfortable living in?

What Tom is doing seems impossible to fit in our imagination of how one defines hers/his daily life. Can it last? Tom is not worrying about the future. He says : ”For the moment we're doing great and we'll change our lifestyle as soon as we feel like it”. That is what makes “the best choice” the best; it changes according to personal growth and circumstances. It is always best choice -now.
Tom knows that there are ups and downs in everybody´s lives. He takes life as it comes; one day is a hurricane on horizon the next day he is bathing in crystal clear water.