Оскар и Речел встретились в то время, когда Вторая Мировая война поделила мир пополам. Он - разочаровавшийся в войне немецкий солдат, она — дочь раввина, но это не помешало им полюбить друг друга. Война разлучает влюбленных. Отец Оскара, будучи армейским генералом, настаивает, чтобы сын воевал до победного конца, и тот возвращается на фронт. Смирившись с мыслью о том, что она уже никогда уже не увидит возлюбленного, Речел выходит замуж за преподобного Бернара, и они вместе скрываются от нацистов. Все попытки влюбленных найти друг друга, ведут к русской линии фронта… Смогут ли они встретиться? Или война так и не даст им ни малейшего шанса быть вместе?
This is the story of Bella, a defiantly proud transsexual and part-time tattooist, whose mere presence arouses the ire of one of the prison guards. But the guard's taunts are more complicated than they appear.
Sam works on the tolls and likes to listen. He overhears more than he bargains for and becomes embroiled in a mishmash of corruption and blackmail. Anna is a hooker who specializes in throwing tomatoes at ageing weirdos. Sam and Anna's paths cross as he works to expose shady maneuvrings by the CEO of Infacorp, who is out to land a contract to build a tunnel under Auckland harbour.
During the Great Depression, Kate (Greer Robson) is a 13-year-old girl living on New Zealand's South Island. When her mother dies and her father is offered a job in Wellington on North Island, Kate is sent to live with an aunt. The girl runs away to find her father, hopping onto a boxcar and befriending a fellow fugitive, Patrick (Peter Phelps), an emotionally battle-scarred WWI veteran fleeing the authorities after injuring a repo man. Pretending to be father and daughter, Patrick and Kate use each other for cover as they make their way across New Zealand, sleeping under the stars and championing the rights of destitute farmers and homeless squatters whose fortunes have been wiped out by economic hardship.
