Gibsons – Monday, September 21, 7:30 pm
Sechelt – Thursday, September 24, 2:00 pm
Canada 2025, 87 min, Drama
Starring: Ellyn Jade, Star Slade, Shawn Doyle
Director: Eva Thomas
Nika and Madison are cousins who have chosen very different paths. Nika has remained on the reservation while Madison has gone off to university in Toronto. When Madison comes home on a visit, she is arrested in a bar after a fight breaks out. When a white RCMP officer says he is driving her home but instead takes her to a deserted place and sexually assaults her, she is rescued by Nika, who injures the officer seriously enough to send him to hospital and into a coma.
The subsequent investigation forces the young women to flee, first into the bush and then into the city. Eventually they are captured and must face justice. This crime thriller is also a story of family and friendship, of the tragic treatment of First Nations people in the hands of government authorities, of the powerful bonds within the families and the band, and the consequences we must face from the choices we make.