Cast includes Chelsie Preston Crayford, Tanea Heke, Cohen Holloway, Rachel House, Hariata Moriarty, Tioreore Ngatai-Melbourne, Ana Scotney, Miriama Smith, and Cian Elyse White. Cousins Makareta (played as an adult by Tioreore Ngatai-Melbourne), Mata (played as an adult by Tanea Heke), and Missy (played as an adult by Hariata Moriarty) are separated but long to have family connections and hope to retain their ancestral lands as their lives change across the 1940s and 1950s in New Zealand.