Bezhig Little Bird and her sister and brother are ripped away from their family. 18 years later, Bezhig longs for the family she lost.

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 family members who help her piece together her past and she returns home to confront her adoptive mother.

Removed from her home in Saskatchewan, Bezhig Little Bird is adopted into a Montr?al Jewish family at the age of 5, becoming Esther Rosenblum; now in her 20s, Bezhig longs for the family she lost and is willing to sacrifice everything to find them.

After much love and sorrow, the Little Bird family come together to mourn passing and celebrate life. This journey has been onerous for both Esther and Golda, but Esther has finally found what she's been looking for.