Explores the sensitive, and tense, relationship between life on an First Nations reservation and life in the outside world. When Native Canadian Silas Crow is forced to write a personal essay in order to get a much-desired job, he tells the story of the rape and murder of an Indian girl by a drunken thug. When the killer received a lenient two-year sentence for manslaughter, the First Nations community felt shock and anger—and tried desperately to deal with the after-effects of this lack of justice.
Ryan Rajendra Black
as Silas Crow
Adam Beach
as Frank Fencepost
Jennifer Podemski
as Sadie Maracle
Lisa LaCroix
as Illianna
Kevin Hicks
as Robert McVey
Rose Marie Trudeau
as Ma Crow
Gloria May Eshkibok
as Mad Etta
Selim Running Bear Sandoval
as Robert Coyote
Sandrine Holt
as Poppy
Tamara Podemski
as Little Margaret
Herbie Barnes
as Joseph
Hugh Dillon
as Clarence Gaskill
