WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for Finding 'Ohana, now streaming on Netflix.
Netflix's Finding 'Ohana focuses on young Pili (Kea Peahu) as she and her brother Ioane (Alex Aiono) come to Oahu to visit their ailing grandfather. After suffering a heart attack, Kimo's (Branscombe Richmond) glad to have them back in Hawaii because he's missed his daughter, Leilani (Kelly Hu).
However, in one bonding session, after Pili finds a journal with a map and clues about a treasure, Kimo starts revealing secrets he shouldn't be spilling. This inspires Pili to lead an expedition to find the loot, but also to some ghastly beings called the Nightmarchers.
What's the Legend of Monks' Treasure?
Pili starts deciphering the diary with the help of a village boy, Casper, and they learn Monks was a pirate who worked for a colonial company in England centuries ago. He and crew-mates, Robinson and Brown, however, didn't want to take the gold they pillaged from the Spanish back, so they led a mutiny of their ship, the Peruvian. It was all so they could find the nearest island and hide the treasure, hoping to return someday to reclaim it for themselves.
When pressed for answers during a bonding session on its whereabouts and if he ever found it, Kimo admits that while he had the journal, it's all myth. But Pili's cynical, as he gave her a necklace with a weird coin, claiming it as luck and a family heirloom. Deep down, she thinks there's something more to it because Kimo doesn't own many trinkets, and he seems to gloss over details about if any proper exploration has taken place.
Ironically, Pili uses the holes in the coin and the sunlight to spot cliffs in the distance that match up, which means the island they're on, Kualoa, must be where Monks and Co. arrived, buried their prize and died. Sadly, as Pili plans to go further, Kimo damages himself and has to be hospitalized again, bringing the excursion to an end, at least for now.
Who are the Dreadful Nightmarchers?
With her mom at the hospital overnight, Pili's adamant she and Ioane must find the gold, as it's the only way to get money so they can pay the bills, help Kimo pay off other debts and avoid not having to sell their Brooklyn loft to move back here. But Ioane warns her against it as legend has it the Nightmarchers protect all treasures around these parts.
He informs her that these ghouls, shadows of the night, appear after blowing a conch shell, which is basically their war-call. They move at the speed of light, floating, appearing and disappearing en masse, and their main ambition is to draw blood from those who break the island's rules. In other words, they're a death army, which, as much as it scares Pili, leaves her wondering about the veracity of it all.
But ultimately, seeing as Ioane is a prankster, she ignores him, which is why she sneaks out in the morning with Casper, steals Kimo's vehicle and heads out to the ranch on Kualoa. She's not scared, but that changes when it's revealed the map has led her to a tomb, not an ordinary cave, and that the treasure here is cursed and watched over by ghosts that are real.
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