I’m boarding a cargo ship for a 10-day crossing of the Atlantic, connecting Canada to Belgium, to revisit the history of violence that unites my Belgian family with the Innu community of Quebec’s Lower North Shore.
Using both personal and collective photo and video archives, as well as contemporary footage shot alongside the Innu and the women of my family, I take on the task of repairing an incestuous and colonial memory written into the bodies of our communities.
What do we do with the actions of our ancestors? How do we heal a lineage damaged by rape? What dawn can we mend after the monsters?