剧情介绍
佩（凯莎·卡斯特-休伊斯 Keisha Castle-Hughes饰）是新西兰海岸上古老部落的酋长孙女。母亲曾经诞下龙凤胎，但不幸她和男婴都死去了，心灰意冷的父亲远走他方，剩下孤女佩给祖父母抚养成人。 奶奶非常疼爱佩，而酋长寇罗（拉维里·帕拉特恩Rawiri Paratene饰）却一度认为孙女是不祥之人。现今更令寇罗头痛的是继承人的问题。这个部落的有着严格的信条：继承人必须是男性。而眼看自己的儿子无法继承家业，寇罗万分苦恼。他从族人中间选出壮健男子，希望可以培养成为领袖，结果很不如意。而他的孙女佩，却在练习各式武艺，一心要接过爷爷的担子。 寇罗却执意遵从族人规条，不允许女性当上领袖位置。直到一条鲸鱼搁浅在此处的海岸，事情才开始峰回路转。佩凭着出色的勇气和能力，让爷爷改变了决定。On the east coast of New Zealand, the Whangara people believe their presence there dates back a thousand years or more to a single ancestor, Paikea, who escaped death when his canoe capsized by riding to shore on the back of a whale. From then on, Whangara chiefs, always the first-born, always male, have been considered Paikea's direct descendants. Pai, an 11-year-old girl in a patriarchal New Zealand tribe, believes she is destined to be the new chief. But her grandfather Koro is bound by tradition to pick a male leader. Pai loves Koro more than anyone in the world, but she must fight him and a thousand years of tradition to fulfill her destiny.