When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-century New Zealand, she finds herself locked in a battle of wills with both her controlling husband and a rugged frontiersman to whom she develops a forbidden attraction.

• New South Wales Film & Television Office
• Jan Chapman Productions
• Holly Hunter
• Harvey Keitel
• Sam Neill
• Anna Paquin
• Cliff Curtis
• Kerry Walker
• Ian Mune
• Geneviève Lemon