An intimate story set during the 1860s in which a young Irish woman Sarah and her family find themselves on both sides of the turbulent wars between British and Maori during the British colonization of New Zealand.
Sarah O'Brien

Doyle

Wiremu

Francis

Te Kai Po

Old Rangi

Baine

Hone

Te Kai Po Lead Warrior

Boy
Young Sarah
Tommy Boy
Young Wiremu
Boy (7 years)
Theresa
Old Puhi
Kura
Timoti
Te Kai Po Lead Warrior
Te Kai Po Lead Warrior
Te Kai Po Elder
Tangamoko
Te Manawanui
Colonial Recruit

Hoki Mai
Tattooed Kupapa
Interrogating Kupapa
Baine's Lieutenant

Surgeon

Viola

Maori Tribal Chief
Maori Tribal Chief's Wife

Boy (23 years)