Pili Hou:
Finding Helen

When Oʻahu resident Diane Ako set out to find her family’s missing matriarch — a full Hawaiian woman named Helen Maliu who vanished in 1900 and was never spoken of again — she uncovered a journey that led from Honolulu to the shores of Kalaupapa, Molokaʻi. Pili Hou follows Diane and her family as they piece together why Helen left, where she went, and what it means, more than a century later, to pili hou — to rejoin — with the great-grandmother they never knew they’d lost.