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.
Keywords: 19th-century , adultery , arranged-marriage , beach , culture-clash , dramatic , intense , intimate , isolation , jealousy , love-triangle , maori , mother-daughter-relationship , mute , new-zealand , pianist , piano , playing-piano , secret-love , settler , severed-finger , sexuality , sign-languages , strangeness , violent-husband , wilderness , woman-director , movies-online