THE WIND AND THE RECKONING 

Indigenous Heritage Film Festival Feature Length Film

It’s 1893. The Hawaiian Kingdom is overthrown by a Western power and an outbreak of leprosy engulfs the tropical paradise. The new government orders all Native Hawaiians suspected of having the foreign disease banished permanently to a remote colony known as ‘the island of the living grave.’ When a local cowboy named Ko’olau and his young son Kalei contract the dreaded disease, they spark an armed clash that makes Ko’olau and his wife, Pi’ilani, heroes for the ages. Based on real-life historical events as told through the memoirs of Pi’ilani herself.