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Rangi and his cousin pull up at a forestry clearing one Saturday morning, dogs on the roof and ready to hunt pigs - but two blonde babes are already there, washing their hair in a bucket beside a Kombi. The babes are Germans on an NZ road trip, and they have advanced ideas about nudity. Which makes Rangi and the cousin suspect they might be witches. What fate will befall our pair of eager pig hunters on their Minginui quest for pig's flesh? Are the babes witches?

It's 1972, and 12-year-old GJ Philip lives most of the time on the wharves of Wellington, NZ, afraid to go home where his schizophrenic father rules with an iron fist. But GJ carves a life of sorts from the rough-and-tumble world of pubs and railway stations in New Zealand's Capital City, selling fish and sleeping in railway carriages, part of a band of Naenae street urchins that find shelter on the public transport network. GJ joins the Wellington Surfcasting and Angling Club to find acceptance in society and recognition among his fishing peers.