Of Dene background, Mary Jane Adam, in the 1960s, was a single mother to four young children, who were taken from her custody by the authorities in what is now coined the Sixties Sweep in the supposed belief by the authorities that indigenous children in Canada were better off ridding themselves of their indigenous roots to be integrated into "western" society. As such, all four grew up both not knowing the other three and in non-indigenous homes. Now in their fifties, the four "children" - Betty Ann, Esther, Rosalie and Ben - on eldest Betty Ann's initiative in using her journalism skills in having tracked her biological siblings down, are all meeting together for the first time. While they all have a common background in having been taken away from their mother, and having grown up in non-indigenous homes, some in what they consider "good" conditions in general, those commonalities are not ones they are celebrating in feeling that they have lost an inherent part of their being. It is thus a common future they are hoping to eke out together in discovering the others as siblings, and discovering their indigenous heritage about which they generally know nothing.
—Huggo