Trough notary Nolan Davies, the late James Abbott left his New Zealand estate to puzzled New York niche publisher Paige Duvall. She delays a $1,000,000 deal with Douglas Lancaster to collect the inheritance and agrees in principle to sell to regional tycoon Steven Armstrong, who wants to build a hotel there. Visiting the estate, she gets seduced by both pristine landscape and local sheep farmer Adam Leary, who lives there with lovely son Jake and Maori Nanna. Respecting he native heritage also gets a new dimension when a family secret is unearthed, but she's reluctant to contest the sale, although Maoru attorney Haki Tamahori.