The story of Johnson, an English survivor of the World War One trenches, who comes to Auckland during the Depression, is caught up in rioting, farms first in the grim northern Waikato and then in the centre of the North Island. After an affair with his boss’s wife, and the accidental killing of the boss, he survives an epic crossing of the Kaimanawa Ranges, to leave the country and set out for the Spanish war.
An adaptation of a classic of New Zealand fiction.
Can be cross-gender cast.