Brandon Oakes

Based on the Giller Award-winning novel of the same name by Joseph Boyden, Through Black Spruce is a story of identity and survival. The disappearance of a young Cree woman in Toronto traumatizes her Northern Ontario family, and sends her twin sister on a journey south to find her.

The dead are coming back to life outside the isolated Mi'kmaq reserve, except for its Indigenous inhabitants, who are strangely immune to the plague.

In this tale of star-crossed lovers inspired by true events, two members of the Chemehuevi tribe run off together, sparking a massive manhunt.