Te Aho Aho Eketone-Whitu

Nine-year old Sleepy and his two friends enjoy causing mischief in their small suburban town and hanging out by the river. All goes well until a freak encounter changes their lives forever.

Boy, an 11-year-old child and devout Michael Jackson fan who lives on the east coast of New Zealand in 1984, gets a chance to know his absentee criminal father, who has returned to find a bag of money he buried years ago.

A mother tries to comfort her grieving son, but on each attempt her son’s silence becomes more and more deafening. An outing to the local aquarium places further strain on their troubled relationship - until her son finds a reason to let his mother in again.