Siobhan Marshall

In 1989 the trimaran Rose Noelle set sail from Picton, New Zealand, bound for Tonga with four crew. After a freak wave capsized the yacht, they drifted for 119 days before landing on Great Barrier Island.

When career criminal Wolfgang West gets put away for four years, his wife Cheryl decides it's time for her family to go straight. But can the Wests change the habits of a lifetime?

A trio of accidental outlaws travel the length of New Zealand in a stolen Mini, protesting conformity and chasing lost love, with a posse of cops and a media frenzy in pursuit.