Nun of Kukune

A “Hipnotik Pictures” FILM
WRITTEN BY Cody Agraval

Kukune is a quiet rural town in New Zealand, which hasn’t evolved much since the last century. Despite its small population, though, it has been home to some of the country’s most exuberant criminal and gang life. But to talk about that would be dwelling on the past. The Nun in Kukune didn’t grow up here, but she is as intertwined with the town’s history as much as any other in the town. Except the others in Kukune don’t talk to the Nun. In fact, they despise her. And that’s why they don’t talk about the history of Kukune either.

So the Nun keeps to herself. She lives in a desolate church in the outskirts of the town, abandoned from all company except the Father, where they haven’t had a single visitor in years. Which has taken it’s toll; the Father has forgotten how to be a friend, let alone a mentor. That is until the day where the journey of the Nun begins, where they answer a knock on the door in the middle of the night to a young woman, Aroha. Bruised, battered and panting.

They don’t know that Aroha’s arrival means that she has left her boyfriend. Nor do they know that this means her boyfriend can’t deliver something to Wyman. And nobody knew that Wyman was already well on his way to setting up the Kukune arm of New Zealand’s newest, and soon to be most infamous, gang.

So the Nun unknowingly ventures into dangerous territory once again. Except this time round, she must question her new beliefs as a Nun, her few friendships, and her futile devotion to the wellbeing of Kukune’s spiteful locals. Struggling to find her new identity, repercussions are the last thing on her mind…