Rurangi

When his closeted, professional rugby player, boyfriend commits suicide, transgender activist Caz Davis burns all bridges with activism and heads back to Rūrangi; the rural home town he cut off all contact with ten years earlier.

Caz reconnects with his old childhood friend Anahera, who takes him to a divisive town meeting where Caz’s father, Gerald, is pushing for a new environmental bylaw to roll back phosphates.

Caz can’t bring himself to enter his childhood home with Gerald. He gets drunk with his old high school boyfriend Jem, who’s more intrigued than shocked by Caz’s transition.

Caz confronts the difficult memories his old home holds, then tries to help Gerald with work on the farm - but the two men start to tear at old wounds.

After Gerald badly injures himself, Caz and Gerald reconcile at Gerald’s hospital bed. Caz heads to the town hall to give the final reading of Gerald’s proposed bylaw, where he is outed as trans by Richter in an attempt to discredit Gerald’s cause.

Elz Carrad discusses working on Rurangi.

The cast and crew talk about creating Rurangi.