Whetū and Nick tells an original tale of a young Māori girl and a British orphan cabin boy who set out in search of Cook’s map, a flying kite and the sacred maunga (mountain).
Along the way they discover their cultural differences and similarities, the voyages of their people and their shared love of Aotearoa. Their young lives take a momentous turn as they go through the forest and find themselves atop the sacred maunga and that they have lost everything they ever had.