The beautiful Marlborough Sounds, at the northern tip of New Zealand's South Island, is the setting for this innocent tale of love and loss. Tane is like any other Maori boy, until a traumatic event in his life renders him mute and withdrawn. Forced to live with the strict disciplinarian Grandma Ann on an isolated island, without love or affection, Tane eventually finds companionship from a tui - a little bird whose remarkable voice seems...