Returning Home

Skilfully intertwining narratives concerning residential school survivors and Indigenous peoples relationship with imperiled wild Pacific salmon Sean Stillers stirring documentary is a revelatory testament to strength and resilience At the heart of the film is Phyllis JackWebstad the survivor who founded the Orange Shirt Day movement While Phyllis recounts her childhood trials to youth across the country her relations in the Secwépemc territory near Williams Lake are contending with another outcome of colonialism the upper Fraser Rivers lowest salmon runs in Canadian history