Synopsis

Rosie, a Thai–Hawaiian girl, moves back to Hawaii with her father, who plans to renovate their old resort into a massive luxury development. For Rosie, this sudden uprooting is already overwhelming — but then strange chants begin echoing in her dreams, as if the island itself is calling her awake.

Through Aunty Molly, a Native Hawaiian woman who treats Rosie like her own, she learns:

“We are not separate from nature — we are part of it.”

But her father’s project threatens sacred caves, coral reefs, and ancestral land.
Each time construction advances, the island’s drums thunder louder — warning, grieving, resisting.

Rosie joins the local community in protest, pleading with her father to stop.
Their conflict deepens until he sends her off to boarding school, hoping to “fix” her.

Days later, a catastrophic wildfire breaks out near the school.
Her father races through smoke and burning forests, realising too late that unchecked development has consequences he refused to see.

He arrives only to find Rosie’s suitcase at the edge of a forest section miraculously untouched by fire — as though nature had shielded it.

Falling to his knees, he finally understands the voice he ignored all his life.

A story of a father and daughter, of humans and the land — bound together more deeply than either ever realised.