I Am... New Zealand

Following the death of his beloved sister, 17-year-old David Ready who'd been born into the religious cult - Gloriavale - took on its leaders, setting him on a fire and brimstone collision course that ended in his expulsion from the only home he'd ever known.

To find peace and a sense of safety, Jayne Crothall whose 3-year-old daughter was killed by her boarder, met with the man who murdered her child and tried to kill her. This is a journey of extraordinary courage and the ultimate offer of redemption far beyond what most of us could ever imagine.

After a life of sexual abuse, violence and drug addiction, Tricia Walsh a Gisborne grandmother of 13, who was first violated as a toddler, is saying enough is enough. By speaking out Tricia is changing the future for her whānau by ending 5 generations of abuse.

One of New Zealands most respected & revered rugby league players - Paul Whatuira - seemed to have it all, until he suffered a devastating psychotic episode which saw him tasered, handcuffed & thrown in a jail cell, with voices telling him to kill himself.

Having escaped a troubled childhood, Korrin Barrett was thriving and enjoying life, when one day she started experiencing sharp stabbing stomach pains. Suddenly she was thrust into literally fighting for her life, as her entire body collapsed with undiagnosed sepsis. Her family were told to say their goodbyes.

From a very young age Mandeep Kaur sensed her conservative Sikh parents would have preferred a boy as their first born. When her arranged marriage collapses the shame of divorce is so overwhelming, Mandeep makes the unthinkable and heart-wrenching decision to leave her two young children in India to journey to Australia and then New Zealand in the hope of forging a better future for her family.