In a dystopian future, a military government separates children from their parents and puts them in schools, where they say the pledge of allegiance and speak one language. Niska, a Cree woman, joins an underground resistance movement to rescue her daughter.

In this vivid allegory for the U.S.-Canadian residential school system, life under a relentlessly urbanizing, exploitative, militaristic state in the contemporary Eastern Woodlands is depicted with exceptional clarity.

Dir/Scr DANIS GOULET is a Cree-Métis filmmaker and screenwriter from Saskatchewan, whose father grew up in the traditional Cree community of Cumberland House.