The summer of 1976 in Auckland, New Zealand. There is a severe marijuana drought. Two couples, a gynecologist and a physicist, together with a violinist and an actress, meet by accident in a pub and help a Maori evade the police. A group of Maori plans to deliver a truckload of cannabis to Auckland. A Chinese family has harvested four greenhouses of enhanced sensimilla. A criminal mastermind plots to start a drug war. A police inspector hunts a fugitive Maori. The war on drugs starts in New Zealand.