exposure to the elements
The setting: the west coast of New Zealand's North Island. Makareta and her sister, bereft of family, agree never to marry. The hurt they had suffered at the hands of their step father had so affected them, but in adulthood, the women see things differently, and Mak agrees to marry her boss. After 25 years, her husband, Roger, is unfaithful, which causes the marriage break-up and Mak chooses to purchase a cottage at Kowhai Bay and does not tell Roger her new address, preferring to make decisions alone. The cottage is ideal for her artistic pursuits but for one thing and that is that the water supply yields nasty brown water and she is advised to replace the cylinder. That Roger is the CEO of the area power company rather goads her into making an unlikey choice of solar panels above a new cylinder, and a wind machine to be mounted on her adjacent land. When the cyclones occur Mak is well off for electricity though her cottage is almost threatened by the risen sea-level.
Roger's lover, Francesca, is a demanding young Italian woman, and it is not long before Roger tires of her and wants to make it up to Mak and, having been shocked to find her wind machine is on the land his power company has coveted, begins to pester her. She wants nothing to do with him but eventually agrees to invite his brother, miraculously delivered from the grasp of the nuclear power company in London, U.K. arrives back in New Zealand in need of a temporary home. Paul is a warm and easy person who is willing to help Mak as she faces new complications in her life as a result of rising tides.
Together, they decide that the bay might well support a wind farm to supply local electricity needs because of repeated storms. Roger is out of the country for a short time, but his puzzling silence causes concern as to his safety since Paul has so recently escaped the clutches of Hammer Burton U.K.
Roger's lover, Francesca, is a demanding young Italian woman, and it is not long before Roger tires of her and wants to make it up to Mak and, having been shocked to find her wind machine is on the land his power company has coveted, begins to pester her. She wants nothing to do with him but eventually agrees to invite his brother, miraculously delivered from the grasp of the nuclear power company in London, U.K. arrives back in New Zealand in need of a temporary home. Paul is a warm and easy person who is willing to help Mak as she faces new complications in her life as a result of rising tides.
Together, they decide that the bay might well support a wind farm to supply local electricity needs because of repeated storms. Roger is out of the country for a short time, but his puzzling silence causes concern as to his safety since Paul has so recently escaped the clutches of Hammer Burton U.K.