A quiet, intimate and emotionally powerful Canadian tale — played out for the most part in real time on a grey and wet day in Vancouver — about two indigenous women, strangers to each other, whose paths cross one fateful day in the moments after one of them has suffered yet another beating by her boyfriend. Co-writer and co-director Elle-Maija Tailfeathers is special as the woman from the “right side” of the Indigenous tracks, trying to do what she thinks is the right thing for someone (played with subtlety but power by Violet Nelson) she believes can benefit from her help. Of course, real life is not so simple. It can be tough to watch at times, but definitely worth your time. The script’s tight focus on the evolving relationship between these two complicated women, to the exclusion of much else, is in my opinion the right choice.
