Strange Birds In Paradise

While the Indonesian army dominates the indigenous inhabitants of West Papua, three friends gather to record outlawed folk songs. Charlie Hill-Smith, an Australian writer, is their friend. Afloat in an extraordinary musical tradition from the West Papuan highlands, hearing stories of escape, oppression and exile, listening to the defiant songs of murdered musician Arnold Ap, Charlie confronts a basic question: how could these two be at war and how can the rest of the world seemingly not care?