Five Little IndiansFive Little Indians

Taken from their families when they are very small and sent to a remote, church-run residential school, Kenny, Lucy, Clara, Howie and Maisie are barely out of childhood when they are finally released after years of detention. Alone and without any skills, support or families, the teens find their way to the seedy and foreign world of Downtown Eastside Vancouver, where they cling together, striving to find a place of safety and belonging in a world that doesn't want them. The paths of the five friends cross and crisscross over the decades as they struggle to overcome, or at least forget, the trauma they endured during their years at the Mission. Clara finds her way into the dangerous, highly charged world of the American Indian Movement. Maisie internalises her pain and continually places herself in dangerous situations. Kenny can't stop running and moves restlessly from job to job. Lucy finds peace in motherhood and nurtures a secret compulsive disorder. After almost beating one of his tormentors to death, Howie serves time in prison, then tries once again to re-enter society and begin life anew.