Retreating to the remote community of Haleiwa, Hawaii after an unexpected and jarring failure, a young man falls in love with a powerfully timeless beauty, and an ostensibly simple job he finds to support himself. When his old life beckons, will he be willing to make the necessary sacrifices for a new existence he believes to be infallible? A visually stunning work, THE TOLL OF THE WEST provides a rare, inside perspective on a unique enclave of paradise, a Never Never Land of fabled waves and hedonism that is also part of a modern world of unprecedented changes and pressures, at the same time as exploring how profoundly our work affects us on our journey through life.