An incredible series, told from the point of view of the oppressed rather than the other way around with a First Nations cast, direction and writing.
I was riveted from the first scene as it was so well written, cast and with marvelous cinematography.
I was in tears several times, following the story of a First Nations child, who, along with her siblings is taken to an orphanage, photographed for the newspapers as ready for adoption and then adopted by a Jewish family in Montreal.
In adulthood, she finally ascertains she is adopted and not Jewish and starts the long arduous task of tracking her birth parents.
My heart broke for her so many times as she hits so many barriers in her quest.
Nothing is Disneyfied, the acting is superb and the depiction of the elders is authentic in its execution.
I am surprised I didn't see any publicity about this as it deserves so much recognition and should be shown in colleges, schools and universities.
The narrow, bigoted focus of the cops and social workers was particularly harrowing. The grief of the parents almost unbearable.
10/10 from me.
