The Shades of Johor Straits is a story about Jeff Salim and his untold resentment on having to be uprooted from their Seletar ancestral land, a fishing village in Johor the southern state of Peninsular Malaysia.
Coming from a long lineage of seafarers, Jeff, his brothers, and his cousins has been making their living off the straits. They fish, farm mussels, run a seafood restaurant, collect mangrove produce and work as tour guides.
However, all these activities will soon cease with the impending eviction. The state government and the developer are in the final stages of moving in to develop the parcel of land that they occupy.