June 2003. During the last month of their year-long stay in Fiji, independent film gurus John and Janet Pierson and their two children play host to a documentary film crew. John has been showing movies for free at the 288-seat 180 Meridian Cinema in remote Natokalan Village on Taveuni Island. Reality intrudes on paradise: his home is broken into, the local Catholic priest criticizes John's project, his daughter's behavior may be threatening his friend's reputation, and John's prickly personality follows him. In this context, Fijians laugh at the Three Stooges, Buster Keaton and "Jackass: The Movie". John ends the year with ten movies in ten days: do movies matter?