Distant Roots (2026)

In Aotearoa New Zealand, a Tongan patriarch in his 70s keeps grinding through the same relentless construction routine, even though his kids are grown and gone. Day after day melts into the next, time quietly escaping, while a deep ache of separation lingers — from his homeland of Vava’u, Tonga, and from the loved ones he’s still fighting to keep close.