Simon Ferry

Le 13 novembre 1990 dans la paisible ville de bord de mer d'Aramoana, David Gray, un de ses habitants prit un fusil d'assaut et tua 13 personnes. Cela demeure le pire carnage de l'histoire de la Nouvelle-Zélande. Alors que les services d'urgence avancent avec difficulté pour atteindre Aramoana, une poignée de jeunes policiers du cru, sous équipés, essayent au risque de leur vie de trouver le tueur. Terrifiés et complètement perturbés les habitants se calfeutrent chez eux pendant près de vingt quatre heures sans savoir où se trouve David Gray et s'ils ne seront pas sa prochaine victime. Ce jour là, il y eut des comportements de bravoures exceptionnels de la part d'hommes ordinaires aux prises avec une situation des plus extraordinaire.

As everyone in town gears up for the annual Hokitka Wild Foods Festival, Magik and Rose are locked in a poignant and funny off-beat tale of friendship and fertility. The result could end a good marriage, redefine the "perfect man", as well as discover what it means to be mother and daughter.

Aftershock follows four groups of people in the minutes, hours and days after Wellington is struck by a magnitude 8.2 earthquake and subsequent tsunami. Buried office workers must pull together. Strangers, caught by the tsunami on a ruined motorway, put themselves in danger to save others. A mother must reunite her family. And, at the centre of the rescue operation, a controller is bunkered down at Wellington’s Emergency Management Office.

Two families - De Lutrelles and McFarlanes. They both live in the same house, but 130 years apart in time. De Lutrelle's: father Gervaise, mother Violette and daughter Constance. In their age, around the house were goldfields. Family emigrated from France with the remnants of their wealth, and hoping to find gold so they would restore their fortunes. McFarlan's: father Doug, mother Jenny who decided to get in a new business: eco-tourism. Guests will stay with Doug and his family - second wife Jenny, stepson Fergus, daughter Mandy, and sister-in-law Lily, who maked troubles wherever she goes! Doug has also another son, Daniel. When the series begins, Daniel decides he wants to meet the father who left him and his mother Caroline when he was just a baby. He invites himself to stay for the holidays and, with the help of the mirror, he changes everyone's life, his own included.