When Mitch yearns to go to the Surfing Finals with pro-surfers Terry Manhoff and Kay Stratton, Barrett, his father, advises him that living in the past is just another way of dying.

Kimo's friend, Akoni, is charged with the slaying of a former employer who tired him without paying back wages, attorney Seth Bradley bows to local pressure and refuses to defend Akoni because he's a Hawaiian.