In the 1970s, many Māori and Pasifika children ended up in state care on flimsy charges. Some received shock treatment. Entomologist Oliver Sutherland, co-founder of civil rights group ACORD, tried to expose what was going on. In this short documentary he recalls police raids and surveillance by the SIS during a decade plus campaign against racism in the justice system. Key figures from the Polynesian Panther and Ngā Tamatoa movements are interviewed, and stories of children as young as nine receiving electroconvulsive therapy are revealed. Finally, in 2018, a Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care was launched.