Trish Howie

It's 1999 on the hottest day of the year, and an ensemble of teens are engaged in a turf war over their local skate park. However, a circulating mysterious drug threatens to cut their lives viciously short.

In New Zealand in the 1860s the native Māori people fought the British colonials to keep the land guaranteed to them by treaty. The warrior Te Wheke fights for the British until betrayal leads him to seek utu (revenge). The settler Williamson in turn seeks revenge after Te Wheke attacks his homestead. Meanwhile Wiremu, an officer for the British, seems to think that resistance is futile.