guide of moana

A small pounamu stone that is the mystical heart of the island goddess Te Fiti is stolen by the demigod Maui, who was planning
to give it to humanity as a gift. As Maui makes his escape, he is attacked by the lava demon Te Ka, causing the heart of Te Fiti
and his power-granting magical fish hook to be lost in the ocean.
A millennium later, Moana, daughter and heir of the chief on the small Polynesian island of Motunui, is chosen by the ocean to
receive the heart, but drops it when her father, Tui, comes to get her. He insists the island provides everything the villagers
need. But years later, fish become scarce and the island s vegetation begins dying. Moana proposes going beyond the reef to find
more fish. Tui rejects her request,
as sailing past the reef is forbidden

Moana s grandmother Tala shows Moana a secret cave behind a waterfall, where she finds boats inside and discovers her ancestors were
voyagers, sailing and discovering new islands across the world. Tala explains that they stopped voyaging because Maui stole the heart
of Te Fiti, causing monsters to appear in the ocean. Tala then says Te Ka s darkness has been spreading from island to island, slowly
killing them. Tala gives Moana the heart of Te Fiti, which she has kept safe for her granddaughter.
Tala suddenly falls ill and with her dying breaths tells Moana to set sail. Moana and her pet rooster depart in a drua to find Maui.
A manta ray, Tala s reincarnation, follows. After a typhoon wave flips her sailboat and knocks her unconscious, she awakens the next
morning on an island inhabited by Maui, who traps her in a cave and takes her sailboat to search for his fishhook. After escaping
and catching up to Maui, Moana tries to convince him to return the heart, but Maui refuses, fearing its power will attract dark creatures