Alatupe Alatupe lights his first cigarette of the day while his 11-month-old son naps in his lap and his wife sleeps. The Lagavale family lives in a 720-square-foot tin-roofed open-air house in Poutasi Village, Western Samoa. The Lagavales have pigs, chickens, a few calves, fruit trees and a vegetable garden. Material World Project.