Recluse Smith is drawn into a revolutionary struggle between guerrillas and right-wingers in New Zealand. Implicated in a murder and framed as a revolutionary conspirator, Smith tries to maintain an attitude of non-violence while caught between warring factions.

Sam Neill
as Smith

Warren Oates
as Col. Willoughby

Ian Mune
as Bullen

Ian Watkin
as Dudley

William Johnson
as Cousins

Davina Whitehouse
as Elsie

Nevan Rowe
as Gloria

Clyde Scott
as Jesperson

Donna Akersten
as Mary

Don Selwyn
as Taupiri