In Jamaica, a harbor swallowed a whole city in two minutes. Smoke was buried underground to keep it out of sight. One wooden bar still stands a mile out at sea. This is an island that survived by hiding. In 1692 an earthquake dropped two thirds of Port Royal, then the richest port in the West Indies, into Kingston Harbour; today it is a quiet fishing village. In the east, some of the world's most expensive coffee is still picked by hand on slopes too steep for any machine.
Deep in Cockpit Country, the village of Accompong governs itself through a colonel and council rather than through Kingston. This 4K travel documentary follows fifteen places across the island to show how disappearing became a survival strategy, and how that instinct shaped Jamaican culture: the jerk pits of Boston Bay, the trust that runs Coronation Market without a coordinator, and the red dirt roads of Trelawny that produced the fastest man the world has ever timed.
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