The Waimate Conspiracy

The 2005 discovery of a cannonball buried for 138 years in a paddock throws Waimate into turmoil It is all the Maori locals need to confirm their longheld belief that they were forcibly removed from their tribal lands in a bloody 1866 battle The hotly contested claim eventually ends up in the District Court and on the lens of cameraman Dave who captures all the arguments frauds and forgeries of the townspeople in a cinema verité mockumentary style