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Struggling after the death of her daughter in the Christchurch earthquakes, Mareta reluctantly takes on the role of substitute teacher at an elite, wealthy private school and is surprised to find children crying out for guidance, inspiration, and love. Using the symphony of her culture to empower her students, she forms a choir, bringing them together while unexpectedly rediscovering her passion again for being a teacher and mother.
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00:01Mom, please, can you help me warm up?
00:04Okay, breathe.
00:19We need to show that you're at least trying to make your situation better.
00:22Or they're gonna take your benefit, you're gonna lose your power,
00:24put your pants in there now to come clean it up.
00:28It's yuck.
00:30At Francis, our standards are extremely high.
00:33And the person we're after needs to be a little bit more like us.
00:37When you walked into the interview, I thought,
00:39now here's someone that can offer my kids something different.
00:43That's what I came to discuss.
00:45I'm starting a school choir.
00:48You wanna rub your hands together like this?
00:50You can tell me what choir's about.
00:52Singing?
00:53Yeah.
00:54Patia!
00:55Patia!
00:56Totopa!
00:57Okay.
01:00That's a work in progress.
01:03If you disrespect the master, you exercise.
01:06Your power!
01:07This is a teaching institution.
01:09Otherwise, you'd get the jandal.
01:11With love, of course.
01:12I wanted to tell you guys about a national choir competition called The Big Sing.
01:18I think you should do it.
01:21What is this?
01:22They're a bunch of spoiled rich kids that have everything they could ever want.
01:25You don't know them.
01:26You can't just throw some Sunday school group together and sing Kumbaya.
01:31You felt that I could give these kids something.
01:34This is that something.
01:36I want you to promise me that you will not stop singing.
01:41Focus on the breaths around you.
01:43The space between us connects us to our choir, our family, to our community.
01:52She's now gone.
01:54I see her in every kid that you're very tall.
01:57Now streaming on Angel.
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