After the land wars turned the valley into a poisoned scrub, a lonely pub landlord finds gold in the soil — but the earth remembers what was taken, and it demands more than coins.

A corrupt councillor tries to bury ancestral land claims beneath a hydro dam, only to wake the kōwhai tree that remembers every betrayal — and the woman bound to it by a pact older than the Crown.

A single mother in a flooded coastal town uncovers a colonial land deed buried in the kahikatea roots — and the law that says the land can’t be owned, only owed.

A woman returns to her ancestral bush farm after a political scandal forces her into exile, only to find the land itself remembers what she’s tried to forget. As storms flood the valley and the trees whisper in old dialects, the past rises—not as memory, but as a presence that demands reckoning.

A Māori fisherwoman fights to bury her husband’s bones where the sea took him — but the land now swallows the dead, and the old ways are forbidden by the new regime.

A corrupt councilor and a woman from the bush must confront the ghosts of colonial pasts as a postapocalyptic Aotearoa unravels beneath their feet.

A dairy owner in a postapocalyptic sheepfarming town must outwit rogue scavengers while rebuilding trust with Māori land guardians.