In 2004, on a secluded beach in Hokianga Bay, a little girl playing with her friend Wiremu disappeared. Drowning was suspected. The Taniwha, the mythical guardian of the waters, was invoked. Then silence descended, thick and definitive. Seventeen years later, Wiremu Tāne has become a police officer. Unable to accept oblivion, he reopens a cold case on his own, in the heart of a community marked by fatalism and unspoken truths.
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