Kurtis Michie is a young Gisborne farmer, for whom stress, booze and by his own admission, a defeatist attitude combined to the point he lashed out and assaulted his partner. Inside a jail cell, he made a phone call that would help set him on a path of redemption. And there was help from an unlikely quarter. 

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