About 80 kilometers from the Panama Canal, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, lies San José Island. It's a quintessential Caribbean island: a 44-square-kilometer expanse of jungle, 57 beaches, and a humid, stifling heat. In 1980, in one of the few houses nestled in this remote place, lived an elderly man. His name was Earl Silas Tupper, he was an inventor, and he whiled away the hours jotting down all the ideas that came to him in small notebooks. He had been there for over twenty years. However, he was no Robinson Crusoe: he had arrived with a huge wad of cash in his wallet. The company he had founded in 1938, which had made his surname famous worldwide, had been sold for 170 million euros. Earl Silas Tupper was the father of the plastic lunchbox and, above all, of the Tupperware corporation.