When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-century New Zealand, she finds herself locked in a battle of wills with both her controlling husband and a rugged frontiersman to whom she develops a forbidden attraction.

Cast:Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, Anna Paquin, Cliff Curtis, Kerry Walker,

Genre:Drama, Romance,

country:New Zealand, Australia, France,

Production:New South Wales Film & Television Office, Jan Chapman Productions, Australian Film Commission, CiBy 2000,