Simon Ferry

Aftershock follows four groups of people in the minutes, hours and days after Wellington is struck by a magnitude 8.2 earthquake and subsequent tsunami. Buried office workers must pull together. Strangers, caught by the tsunami on a ruined motorway, put themselves in danger to save others. A mother must reunite her family. And, at the centre of the rescue operation, a controller is bunkered down at Wellington’s Emergency Management Office.

As pessoas comuns encontram extraordinária coragem diante da loucura. Em 13 e 14 de novembro de 1990, essa loucura chegou a Aramoana, uma pequena cidade litorânea da Nova Zelândia, na forma de um atirador solitário com um rifle semi-automático de alta potência. Enquanto espreitava suas vítimas, os moradores aterrorizados e confusos ficaram presos por 24 horas, enquanto um punhado de policiais locais com poucos recursos e sub-armados arriscaram a vida tentando encontrá-lo e salvar os sobreviventes. Baseado em fatos reais.

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.