Mone has spent her life in the Ialibu region in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea.

Her family has grown up and she is left to care for and nurture a motherless piglet.

Mone has carried many children, dug many gardens, woven many bilums (carrying bags or material as worn on Mone's head), tended many fires and passed on many stories.

She can laugh and has seen life in most of its basic forms.

Mone has seen the futility of wars, the innocence of children, the joy of birth, the grief of death, the worry of sickness, the happiness of health.

Mone has seen it all - she can still laugh.

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