The gothic has long been associated with isolated homes or castles, opulent yet neglected, dark family secrets that often mean a ghost or two, usually a woman with some connection to the paranormal, and the return of the repressed. But it also became popular during a time of colonialism, the rise of capitalism and flourished in the beginning of the industrial age. So much of the gothic is tied to fear of the Other, that it often takes the story of those who were most feared (i.e. the Other), to show the truth of what often happened in these dark places. Mārama takes on the gothic to tell the story of a people who lay in the path of colonialism and the horrors they endured...
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