Roseanne Supernault

On a frozen stretch of highway in the remote Canadian North, an Indigenous woman and her Border Collie are hunted down by a stranger in a semi truck.

Red Crow Mi'gMaq reservation, 1976: By government decree, every Indian child under the age of 16 must attend residential school. In the kingdom of the Crow, that means imprisonment at St. Dymphna's. 15-year-old Aila sells enough dope to pay her way out of the school, but when her drug money is stolen, her only options are to run or fight... and Mi'gMaq don't run.

Mitzi Bearclaw looks after her sick mother.