The history of a Japanese archipelago and its inhabitants, through rebellions and famine, a 20th century exodus for prostitution work across Asia, and finally depopulation and isolation.

A voyage to North Sentinel island, home to one of the last entirely isolated populations on Earth.

The island of Coiba off the coast of Panama is both a nature preserve and an open-air prison.

Pitcairn Island is impossibly remote, populated by descendants of a ship of British mutineers. Revelations that child molestation and rape had been a way of life for generations exposed them to the outside  world.