P.We. Sharon McCone is normally sick and tired of San Francisco’s prolonged rainy weather, so she jumps at the chance to check out the sabotage of a movie becoming filmed around the Hawaiian island of Kauai. The documentary is dependant on the writings of Elson Wellbright, a descendant of the missionary family and scholar of Hawaiian tradition and history. Wellbright’s son is certainly bankrolling the task and offers angered many members of the family, who aren’t stressed for the film to become completed. Quickly the sabotage escalates into assault as well as the matriarch of the Wellbright family members falls to her loss of life during a capture on a clifftop. McCone’s investigation takes her right into a world of family members secrets, drug coping, political insurgency, and murder.