Cree matriarch Aline Spears survives a childhood in Canada’s residential school system to continue her family’s generational fight in the face of systemic starvation, racism, and sexual abuse. She uses her uncanny ability to understand and translate codes into working for a special division of the Canadian Air Force as a Cree code talker in World War II. The story unfolds over 100 years with a cumulative force that propels us into the future.

Things don't go to plan when a young lesbian woman attempts to come out to her oblivious parents.

It's 1955 and Marcy Maples, a frequent flyer, boards the Red Eye flight from Boston to Seattle. She settles into her favourite seat by the window. From the moment the plane leaves the ground she realizes this flight will be like no other.