Growing up together, a boy and his cousin fall in love. Their parents forbid the union because they are cousins, so they run away away to another island. They live happily there until they discover that they are going to be parents. But one night, they are attacked by bandits who leave them for dead. They languish for 3 days before they die. A male and female tree grew where they lay, now known as the coco de mer, Seychelles’ most famous endemic plant.