Came a Hot Friday

In 1949, amid the quiet fields of rural New Zealand, a pair of smooth-talking swindlers set their sights on the sleepy town of Tainuea. Their scheme: a rigged betting operation designed to fleece the locals. But this tight-knit community is no easy mark—it’s already drowning in underground gambling, crooked dealings, and a colorful cast of oddballs who keep things unpredictable. As the con men weave their web, they quickly discover that in Tainuea, everyone’s playing a game of their own, and the line between trickster and tricked blurs faster than they ever expected.