Directors Julian NoiseCat and Emily Kassie are former colleagues in investigative journalism. After years of covering humanitarian crises abroad, Kassie turns her lens to her home country Canada when she hears of hundreds of unmarked graves of indigenous children from St. J-seph's M-ssion, a residential school administered by the C-tholic ch-rch.
NoiseCat and Kassie relocate to Sugarcane Reserve to follow Charlene Belleau investigate ab-se, r-pe, and inf-nticide at St. J-seph's, NoiseCat's family rehash generations of trauma in residential schools, Chief Sellars advocate for reconciling history, and Father Gilbert visit the V-tican in hopes of closure for the pain and shame inflicted by the ch-rch.
The words of Pr-me M-nister Tr-deau and P-pe Fr-ncis ring hollow, as our protagonists are left to find answers on their own. Through them, we are told a story of resistance against subjugation by c-lonialists and the ch-rch.
NoiseCat and Kassie relocate to Sugarcane Reserve to follow Charlene Belleau investigate ab-se, r-pe, and inf-nticide at St. J-seph's, NoiseCat's family rehash generations of trauma in residential schools, Chief Sellars advocate for reconciling history, and Father Gilbert visit the V-tican in hopes of closure for the pain and shame inflicted by the ch-rch.
The words of Pr-me M-nister Tr-deau and P-pe Fr-ncis ring hollow, as our protagonists are left to find answers on their own. Through them, we are told a story of resistance against subjugation by c-lonialists and the ch-rch.