Morag Gunn, a writer who is having trouble with her teenage daughter, examines her own relationship history, which includes a period of turbulence with Jules. While she and Jules have known each other since childhood, he is no rock of stability. In addition, he is white, while she is part Native American, so the teenage Morag experienced racism he can only imagine. Even after they have a daughter, she struggles against the emptiness within her.
Acting
Sonja Smits carries decades of repressed rage in a single glance.
Direction
Anne Wheeler lets silence do the screaming.
Director
Anne Wheeler
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Margaret Laurence's Manawaka series was banned in some Canadian schools for its frank depictions of female sexuality and colonial violence—this adaptation arrived the same year she died.
The film's Métis protagonist and mixed-race casting was radical for 1993 Canadian television, where Indigenous stories were still largely told by and for white audiences.
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