Spectators are enthralled by coconut tree climbing, stone lifting, spear throwing and outrigger sailing in a Polynesian version of Scotland's Highland Games.
Even minor characters, from the worldly lesbian that runs April's apartment building, to the hoverchair-bound cyperpunk that lives by the dockside, to the tense-scrambled time-unhinged being that lives in a stonetree in the center of Arcadia, each have their own unique and rich personalities and histories.