Connected by blood but separated by circumstances, three cousins spend a lifetime in search of each other.

Cousins

1960'Ların başlarında Yeni Zelanda'nın taşrasında büyük bir ailede herkes reisleri büyükbaba Mahana'nın katı kuralları altında yaşar. 14 yaşındaki Simeon zamanla büyükbaba Mahana'nın katı kural ve inançlarını sorgulamaya başlar. Bu tabii ki aile içinde başını belaya sokacaktır.

Aile Reisi

Hone is the last of the old time gravediggers. He links the living with the dead. He is the keeper of their secrets. Tana is Hone’s apprentice who respects his uncle and doesn’t mind the physical work. However he finds the spiritual side of the job unnerving. Hone worries that Tana may not be able to pick up the role of the gravedigger and all that it entails.  A series of incidents in the urupa (graveyard) lead them to both make final decisions.