In 1968, Bezhig Little Bird and her siblings are removed from their home on the Long Pine Reserve and adopted into white families. Now in her 20s, Bezhig lives in Montreal as a Jewish woman named Esther Rosenblum, who seeks to uncover the truth of her past.

Esther finds her adoption papers, and a newspaper clipping that evoke fuzzy memories of her young life on the Long Pine Reserve. Determined to learn more, she uproots her life and sacrifices everything in search of her family and identity.

Patti Little Bird is desperate to get her kids back, but she doesn’t know where they have been taken. Eighteen years later, Bezhig/Esther, who has made her way back to the prairies, is desperate to find her family, but both women are lost.

Esther finds members of her family who help her put together the pieces of the past. She returns home to Montreal to confront Golda, her adoptive mother about the revelations she’s uncovered that shine a new light on their life and change the way they can look at the past.

When tragedy strikes, Esther realizes that she needs her adoptive mother, Golda, more than anything.

After much love and sorrow, the Little Bird family come together to mourn death and celebrate life.