Simon Harper

Sometimes first love is found in the most unlikely of places, like in the carpark outside the Te Kaha pub.

As everyone in town gears up for the annual Hokitka Wild Foods Festival, Magik and Rose are locked in a poignant and funny off-beat tale of friendship and fertility. The result could end a good marriage, redefine the "perfect man", as well as discover what it means to be mother and daughter.