Shirley Horrocks’ documentary profiles the life, work, and influence of pioneering Pacific Island writer Albert Wendt. His groundbreaking 1973 novel, Sons for the Return Home, was the first English-language novel published by a Samoan. The film follows Wendt across the Pacific, tracing his upbringing in Samoa, his education in New Zealand, and work as a writer and teacher. It also discusses the contemporary explosion of Pacific arts — a movement Wendt has helped shape and inspire. "I belong to Oceania — or, at least, I am rooted in a fertile part of it and it nourishes my spirit, helps to define me, and feeds my imagination."