On a boat to New Zealand’s remote South Island in 1865, two young adventurers dream of making their fortunes during the West Coast Gold Rush.
Enigmatic beauty Anna Wetherell (Eve Hewson) and dashing explorer Emery Staines (former EastEnders actor Himesh Patel) have only just met, but their fates are to become intertwined in an epic tale of romance, murder, greed and revenge.
In this lavish six-part period drama, adapted from Eleanor Catton’s award-winning book, they arrive in the violent, crime-ridden frontier town of Hokitika and agree to meet for a date that night.
Anna is played by Dublin-born Eve Hewson, who is the daughter of rock star Bono and his activist wife, Ali Hewson. The U2 song Kite was written about Eve.
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