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
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