
Sons for the Return Home 1979
Overview
A Samoan male, Sione, and a Palagi New Zealand female,Sarah, meet while studying at Wellington's Victoria University. A relationship develops quickly, but each finds the other's culture a hard adjustment. Friends and family are not supportive, particularly when she becomes pregnant, although he proposes marriage. She leaves for Australia for an abortion and he returns to Samoa.
Director: Paul Maunder
Cast
Uelese Petaia
Sione
Fiona Lindsay
Sarah
Moria Walker
Sione's mother
Amalamo Tanielu
Malie
Anne Flannery
Sarah's mother
Alan Jervis
Sarah's father
Lani Tupu
Sione's father