Albert Wendt

Songmaker's Chair Albert Wendt

Auckland, one summer weekend. A family fused together by the energies of multicultural Aotearoa New Zealand faces meltdown as tensions build between migrant and New Zealand-born generations, and between Samoan, Maori, and Patagi family members. Why is it we've strayed this far? We think we've found a firm fit to this land. To our children and mokopuna it's home. That's good enough pe 'a o'o mal le Amen and Papatuanuku embraces us.