A mother's search for the daughter she left behind in Brazil 26 years ago has ended with a family reunion in Onerahi.
When Gisa Berry left her homeland and moved to New Zealand with older daughter Jackeline Rodrigues, then 8, and a 4-year old son, her former partner "disappeared" with the couple's 18-month-old child, Emmanuelle.
Private and professional searches could not break through "the networks he had in place to make sure no-one could find her", Ms Berry said. She migrated to New Zealand vowing never to give up her search. Here Ms Berry remarried and had another child, Sofia.
At the emotional family reunion at Ms Rodrigues' Onerahi home earlier this month, Ms Berry met not only her long-lost daughter, now 27, but 16-month-old grandson Joao.
The story of how the family found Emmanuelle Bruna sounds like an episode from the television show Missing Pieces.