The story set in 1933 is of a cultural tragedy told through the experiences of a young First Nation boy John and his sister Anna, both trapped in the unyielding and often cruel Canadian Residential School system. Events in the screenplay are based on documented histories.The story introduces a young idealistic Grey Nun, Sister Vivian, full of religious fervour who leaves her convent in Ireland as well as her family to cross the sea to a strange land...