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.

Top Cast

Holly HunterAda McGrath

Harvey KeitelGeorge Baines

Sam NeillAlisdair Stewart

Anna PaquinFlora McGrath

Cliff CurtisMana

Kerry WalkerAunt Morag

Ian MuneReverend

Geneviève LemonNessie