Bernice "Birdie" Meetoos, a Cree woman, leaves her home in Northern Alberta for Gibsons, BC. She tries to recover from wounds of the past and to build a new life. Birdie has ventured to Gibsons in order to find Pat John (Jesse from the TV show Beachcombers) who she views as representative of a healthy Indigenous man. Birdie's journey to Gibsons served as the impetus for the spiritual journey that Birdie goes on, which exists outside of linear time.
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