Born in Merdeka chronicles the lives of Malaysia's tiniest minority, the Orang Asli who are also the earliest inhabitants of the Malay peninsula. Through the ages with the arrival of new migrants, invaders and colonialists, they have fled deeper into the 130-million-years-old jungles at Asia's southern most tip. Some have been enslaved, captured and made serfs and guides and only knew total freedom as equal citizens when Malaya became independent in 1957.