Mark Hadlow

A fight promoter arrives in 1836 Kauri Bay with a wrestling ring and tent, pitting the indigenous Māori against white New Zealanders in a rigged game.

When a gigantic corporation tries to acquire a backwater petrol station, the owner emphatically refuses and then suddenly turns up dead.

Pastor Luke has always known that he possessed the God-given power to inspire people, but he’s never had more than a few, paltry parishioners in his small town on which to bestow his glorious gift. When he moves to the city, and achieves great success as a televangelist, he thinks he’s finally fulfilling God’s plan. It’s only when he almost loses his new ministry, and the woman he loves, that he finds the courage to become the man God truly called him to be. Starring Angus Benfield, Victoria Abbott and Jeremy Brennan, THE HOLY ROLLER shows us that the only thing more important than having the faith to begin … is the courage to begin again.

A local court must settle a case, when the discovery of a cannonball confirms the local Maori’s belief that they were robbed of tribal lands in 1866.