Why I'm Here
Noelle Walsh
, Sandra Furlotte
, Deana Bueley
, Penny Gilman
, Chantal Comeau
, Cassandra Schiemann
, Jude Castillo
, Jessica Trento
, Stephanie Baird
, Sebastian Schulman
, Barry Kazimer
, Sarah Schwartz
, Linda Leitch
, Phreia Von Woolfgard
, Hoda Montazeri
, Marilyn Stanley
, Andrea Pole
, Shannon Holmes
, Marissa Yip-Young
, zelda dwyer
, Kevin Smith
, April van der Ham
, Vanessa Charbonneau-Dinelle
, Mary-Esther Lee
, Tyler Webb
, LJ Law
, Mathew Webb
, Holly Elisabeth
, Kim Wiggins
, Andy Holmes
, Ed Gilman
, Melissa Kohlman
, Summer Halls
, Joshua Lewis
, Lynn Hallson
, P. Thompson
, Georgia Aliphtiras
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Elizabeth Obermeyer
, Tina May
, Crystal Inwood
, Louise Walsh
, Deb Philippon
, Annika Fotheringham
, Heather O'Connor
, Debra Fisher
, sarah campbell
, Andrea Gillespie
, Marc Bédard Pelchat
, Patricia McKeown
, Sarah Beaudin
, Jane Graham
, joy mills
, Cynthia Heinrichs
, Laura Peters
, Kathryn Galan
, C. Ray
, Donna Gamache
, Susan Toy
, Paula Ritchie
, Diana Richardson
, Zara Garcia-Alvarez
, Jessica Gilbert
, Christine Lion
, jane luce
, Rosa Cross
, Tanya Bellehumeur-Allatt
, Karen Kendrick
, Kat Sommer-Derksen
, Marjorie Roy
, Ellen Clarke
, Heather Belliveau
, Robert Hykawy
, Randi Ann Doll
, Chris Lantz
, Huguette Lemieux
, Denise Duvall
, Alanna King
, Laurie Burns
, Amie Gaudet
, Lauren Seal
, Jessica Murray
, Karen Nordrum
, Sharon Bird
, Marilyn Boyle
, Susi Lovell
, Yolande Thivierge
, Navkomal Toor
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Fifteen-year-old Gale is desperate to get out of Whitehorse, a fact that is immediately clear to counsellor Helen Cotillard when Gale walks into her office with her reluctant stepmother. It's 1995, and one counselling agency for kids and families serves all of the Yukon. Gale has been having anxiety attacks, the last one so severe it landed her in the hospital.
Helen soon begins to realize that Gale's distress at being separated from her little sister Buddie too closely parallels a calamity from her own past. This tragic similarity leaves Helen uneasy about her profession and her ability to help her clients. When Gale does escape back to her home in Cobalt, Ontario, to protect Buddie from their brutal mother, she risks her own future.
Through arresting, compelling images, Jill Frayne shows both the fierce beauty of the Yukon, and the damaged, enduring landscapes of two human hearts.
