New Zealand sits on the remnant of a sunken prehistoric continent, and this episode of the Somewhere on Earth series spends its runtime with the people who live inside that landscape rather than just filming it from a drone. In the Hokitika region, jade hunter Dave wades the riverbeds hunting greenstone, the mineral Maori tradition calls the "Waters of Greenstone" and prizes above most other materials. Elsewhere the film follows Peter, a painter working directly from the region's exuberant plant life and coastline, and Furhana, who has built a life in what the film frames as wild paradise, isolated and self-sufficient. The camera moves between rainforest, river, and coast, letting each person's daily work, panning for stone, mixing paint, tending a remote home, carry the sense of place instead of narration doing it for them. It is a portrait of a specific corner of the South Island told through three ordinary routines rather than a nature-documentary overview of the whole country.