Who are they those emboldened ones that can slip through the gaps between different cultures practices? How do they move and position themselves at these unstable borders and make a new world for themselves? Juan Rodrigues, born in Santo Domingo to a Portuguese father and African mother, is such a figure. As the first foreign inhabitant of Manhattan in 1613, abandoned, according to the slim historical record, by his Dutch East India ship Rodrigues was charged with setting up a trading post with the Lenape.This project begins where his trial ends: the journey from Governor's Island in New York Harbor to the Island of Manhattan.