Recluse Smith is drawn into a revolutionary struggle between guerrillas and right-wingers in New Zealand. Implicated in a murder and framed as a revolutionary conspirator, Smith tries to maintain an attitude of non-violence while caught between warring factions.
In the deep interiors of New Zealand, is a forest. A sacred land where the native flora and fauna of the land has found their last refuge. This is the story of the land's residents, as experienced by them.