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[quiet, stark instrumental theme plays]
[theme grows tender and buoyant]
[♪]
[birds singing]
[car doors open]
[door closing]
[man] Hoo-whee.
[woman chuckles]
Nice, huh?
- It's huge! - Yeah. -Super nice.
[Connie] This kitchen has a ton of bells and whistles,
but we need to do a serious grocery run tomorrow.
Yeah?
So, do we play rock, paper, scissors?
What are you talking about?
For the biggest room!
[Connie] You take it.
You sure?
I vote our big brother gets first dibs.
I don't know.
[sighs] Aw, take it!
[Anthony] Aw. Thanks, Gwen.
Are we still saying "reunion"
when we are meeting for the first time?
That's what we're calling it, so...
that's what it is.
[door opening]
[door closing]
[shutter snapping]
I brought something from home.
These are from Belgium.
Ooh! Chocolates!
Mm.
Thank you, Marianne.
This is really thoughtful.
I have also a very special bottle of wine
for our first dinner together.
[Anthony] Oh, that's great.
[under her breath] Shit.
So the thing is, I don't drink,
and-and I choose not to be around alcohol...
for many reasons.
Um...
I have something you're all gonna love.
Oh...
They are so very young!
Margaret and John Wasepescan.
It means "meadowlark."
Was... pees...
Wasepescan.
Wasepes...
- Scan. - ...scan.
Our mother looked like Connie, yeah?
No, I look like her.
Hey, this is really fancy.
This one's my favourite.
Hmm!
Hi.
Can I ask a favour?
Sure.
Could you put the seat down when you're done?
Sure.
I have two brothers.
- I get it. - Yeah.
[door closing]
[sound of urination in the bathroom]
Sorry. I meant...
I-I should have said I have three brothers,
and you, four.
I have four.
[Anthony] We're good.
[toilet flushing]
[sighing]
[dishes clattering]
[Anthony] Mm.
[Gwen] That was a wicked salad dressing, Connie.
Oh, well, the secret is tons of lime and garlic.
You can send me the recipe, yeah?
[Connie] Yeah, sure.
Wouldn't mind Charlene getting a copy.
Whoa! Wait, pause.
A-Are you telling me
that you can't make it yourself?
- I... - Wait, wait.
Just repeat after me.
"I sure can."
I sure can.
There you go.
[laughter]
I got us all another little something.
[gasping]
[Anthony] Aw, thank you.
Wow.
And one for George.
I don't know how to play hockey.
Neither do I,
but we're all in this together, right?
You know what?
Um, I think I'll just try mine on later.
It's...
It's been a really long day,
and I'm a little bit bushed,
and... but thanks.
[exhaling deeply]
[Marianne] Yeah. Thank you.
[Anthony] I really like it.
[Marianne speaking in French]
[man speaking in French]
[he sighs]
[♪]
[sighing]
[birds singing]
[singing a dance]
[he stops singing]
Hey there.
Good morning.
Morning.
Listening to a Cree round dance song.
Um, I'm trying to learn it.
My first grandkid is coming in January.
Oh, yeah. I remember.
Congratulations.
Yeah, it's good.
Don't let me hold you up.
I wanted to stop.
Sorry, I don't have much to say.
I don't mind.
I enjoy the silence.
We can share the silence.
[humming softly]
Hey, is that "Lost Together"?
You know, Blue Rodeo?
Yeah, it's my favourite.
Me too!
Um, do you want any help here?
No, I've got it. Thanks.
Okay.
Cheers.
Well, I don't know about you guys,
but I'm hanging with the Merman
at the Banff Indian Trading Post.
"Merman"?
Kind of looks like a guy I once dated.
[chuckling]
Mm.
"Bankhead was a small coal-mining town
in the early 20th century.
Now the town is an abandoned cluster of buildings
right on the outskirts of Banff.
Step onto the old train
and soak in history here."
Yeah. Okay, I get it.
We don't need too much excitement in one day.
We don't have to choose now, do we?
We can head into town, maybe get a feel for things.
Yeah. I would like to see the Banff town.
I mean, we don't need to "decide" decide.
I just, I thought we'd start by making a shortlist.
Why don't we just take these with us
in case we need 'em in town?
Sure.
Anyone for more coffee?
I won't say no.
Uh, no, thank you.
[♪]
Ah, thank you.
[woman] You're welcome.
[man] Say "cheese."
[♪]
[shutter snapping]
I would like very much
to take pictures of this view from the Skybridge.
Oh!
Hey, hey, I'll get tickets for all of us.
- Oh, no. - Yeah!
No, it's too much.
No, it's my first chance to treat my Belgian sister,
and I'm grabbing it!
Thank you.
Yeah.
Uh, I promised my wife
I'd get a selfie with each of you.
Oh, wait. Here.
Yeah.
And then it extends.
And when you are ready, you just press the button here.
[both chuckling]
[shutter clicking]
Ah, it's so nice!
[shutter snaps]
Nice.
Done. 10:00 a.m. tomorrow morning.
Uh, Anthony promised his wife a selfie with each of us.
All righty.
[Anthony] Come on, Gwen.
[shutter snaps]
- [Gwen laughs] - Where to now?
I need to buy some gifts.
[Connie] Okay.
I'm allergic to tourist traps,
so I think I'm just gonna head over to the drugstore,
and then I'm gonna go check out
that thrift store we saw driving in.
I sort of thought we'd all do something together.
Well, we will. We'll-we'll grab a late lunch.
Where and when?
I'll find a place, book a table,
send you all a text?
Okay.
Are you allergic to tourist traps too?
No.
Wow! Oh, they are super.
[chuckling]
My husband says my daughters are too old for toy buffalo,
but it is what they want.
I still have the stuffed koala I got when I was six.
- Yeah? - Mm-hmm.
Kiki got me through a lot.
She's the only one who ever really listened.
She's missing an ear
because I talked the other one off.
Oh, talking someone's ear off
just means you've talked too much.
[chuckling]
Oh, yeah!
[laughing]
I can hold onto these
if you wanna look around some more.
[♪]
[Gwen groans]
Seriously?
I'm gonna get you some Velcro shoes
for your birthday.
[he laughs]
[Marianne] A big smile.
[chuckling]
[shutter snaps]
[sighing] Thank you for helping me.
It was fun.
I wish my nieces didn't live across the ocean.
Well, then you must come visit us.
- I'd like that. - They would like it too.
And me.
My husband too.
[laughing] Anybody else?
Uh, Babette.
My dog.
- Okay. - [both laughing]
And one day I will meet your brothers?
Andrea, my brother Davie's daughter,
she's lovely.
I think you'd get along really well.
I always wanted one of these when I was a kid.
[Gwen chuckles]
Looks like you still do.
I wanted Charlie's Angels.
Those chicks kicked ass, man.
Yeah!
Yeah, brown foster kids like us,
we never got shit like that, did we?
[Anthony] Yeah.
You know, I think you should treat yourself
and just get it.
Nah, that's okay.
[laughing] Hmm.
How many cheese-and-baloney sandwiches did you eat
growing up?
Too many.
[laughing] And what do I do?
Force feed 'em to my own kid.
Some habits are hard to break.
Charlene won't let me near the stuff.
You ever wonder if she thought about
how many cheese-and-baloney sandwiches
she didn't get to make?
Who?
Our mother.
Can I tell you something?
I'm listening.
I haven't thought of her very much.
Oh, hey.
- Hey. - Look what the elf dragged in.
- [chuckling] - Fudge?
Oh, no, I'm trying to, you know,
Listen up, girl,
'cause I'm only gonna tell you this once.
You're beautiful.
[Connie chuckles]
So no more talk
about this "love handle" or any other shit.
- Oh, I get it, just... - Eh-eh-eh-eh!
Where's Marianne?
Oh, she wanted to wander by herself.
Oh, well, hey, join us!
Come on, have a seat. We're people-watchin'.
I think I will.
[♪]
Those are moose hide.
Ah.
They are very nice.
I will take five, please.
Oh. Delia?
[laughing]
This lady is buying five of your keychains.
Are you First Nation?
I am from Belgium.
I am visiting family.
I was born here,
but then I was taken away.
Here, you call it "the '60s Scoop."
Oh, mm.
So who is your family here?
A brother and two sisters.
And there is one more brother,
but he refused to come.
[woman] Are these for them?
I met them for the first time yesterday.
Mm. [chuckling]
Try them on.
They're a gift.
Ooh! Those look perfect on you.
I'm Alma.
My name is Marianne.
I want you to come back Sunday.
Bring your sisters and your brother.
I want you to meet my husband, Simon,
and, um, dress warm.
Thank you.
Mm.
[Marianne] I have very many memories of happiness.
And did that feeling of happiness last?
I would say yeah.
I had friends...
good friends.
They were, how can you say, uh, stand up for me?
They protected me.
Everybody needs that.
Not too many children care where you come from
when you are the fastest in your school...
in all of Antwerp.
[Anthony] Oh, shit,
you were the fastest kid in your city?
The fastest 12-year-old.
So you never really felt like you didn't fit in?
Mm, because of all the medals and the trophies
and the attention,
it was like I fit into my school.
My neighbourhood too.
But your parents must have told you where you came from.
Oh, yeah, but Canada felt so far away.
Everything I learned about Indians
I learned by watching the films with them.
You mean, like, "Hi-ho, Silver" and all that crap?
Yeah.
My father,
he is passing away when I was 20,
and then my mother before I am 30.
When you are an only child,
it's very difficult
to feel so much grief all by yourself.
I remember always wishing very much
that I had siblings.
[smoke alarm beeps]
[gasps] My cookies!
Oh! Can we continue this in here?
This is all of them?
How many homes did you live in?
I lived in a few places.
One was a temporary foster home.
Then the Adopt Indian-Métis Program
put my picture in the paper.
My wife found this in the archives.
[Marianne] What is Adopt Indian-Métis?
Well, Anthony and George would've been labeled
"hard to place," because they were older,
so the government came up with a program
that advertised kids in newspapers,
so, that way,
people could pick and choose them,
like puppies.
[Anthony] After I was scooped,
I went to live with the Bradshaws.
I thought I'd be with them forever.
They seemed really nice.
But then they got pregnant,
stuffed everything I had in a garbage bag.
Wasn't half full.
I stood in the driveway
waiting for a social worker.
It was the day before my seventh birthday.
Then I was back in a home until the Klassens picked me up
and took me to their farm...
because I was, uh, big for my age.
Then, at 18,
I was on my own,
had a baby girl I barely knew when I was in my 20s.
Janine.
Spent a stretch on my own...
even when I was with someone.
Then I met Charlene.
Let me see.
[Connie] She's beautiful.
Kyle.
He's studying to be a mechanical engineer.
Janine... teaches kindergarten.
And you, Connie?
Um...
[phone buzzing]
Oh, um, I-I gotta take this.
You guys just go on without me.
We'll wait for you.
It's George. I don't know how long I'll be.
- [buzzing] - Just go ahead.
[sighing] I'm here.
[door opening]
You know, you could still come...
if you wanna be here.
[Connie] I was with the same family
since I was a baby.
You were a very cute baby.
These are your two big brothers?
Yeah, that's me with Dougie and Davie.
I always got an Indian doll at Christmas.
When I was five, I got one, I called her "Shirley."
[she chuckles softly]
So I'm in my room and combing her hair
and singing to her,
and Dougie walks in,
and he grabs her, and whispers in my ear...
"You better be a good girl,
or you'll be sent back to live on the Reserve
with those dirty Indians."
Then he flung Shirley out the window.
I was terrified that if I ever...
complained or said the wrong thing,
that I'd be sent away.
Now I keep thinking that
I was taken away
before our mother heard me speak my first word.
Kai's was "puppy."
Good night.
Night.
Sleep well.
[footsteps recede]
[sniffling]
[in Dutch] ♪ Slaap, kindje, slaap ♪
♪ Daar buiten loopt een schaap ♪
♪ Een schaap met witte voetjes ♪
♪ Dat drinkt zijn melk zo zoetjes ♪
♪ Slaap, kindje, slaap ♪
♪ Daar buiten loopt een schaap ♪
It's Flemish.
It means, "Sleep, baby, sleep."
My oma, my grandmother,
sang it to my mother when she was a baby,
and then my mother to me.
What? Can't a mother miss her kid?
[Kai] I thought you'd be too busy to call.
What's it been like, meeting them all?
Ah, too much to cram into a quick call.
Well, make it a long call.
Don't get mouthy with me, Kai.
Mouthy?
I'm sorry, babe. I-I'm tired.
But tell me how your day went.
What did you make for supper tonight?
Pop Tarts.
[laughing] - Seriously?
Some days are like that.
Some evenings, too.
What do you mean?
Are you okay?
[sighing]
Blueberry?
What?
Blueberry Pop Tarts?
Oh. [laughing]
Like you even had to ask.
[birdsong]
[exhaling deeply]
You're done?
Uh, yeah.
Uh, we were supposed to run together?
We never made it official or anything like that.
I could never keep up with you anyway.
Oh, I'm so very sorry.
That's okay.
Gonna go for a short walk.
Wait!
I like to run with music.
Same.
I like to walk with music too.
I want to walk with your music.
My playlist?
The song you were listening to yesterday,
for your grandchild.
Can you play it for me, please?
I would like my daughters to hear it.
[playing dance song on phone]
[singing and drumming]
[audio recorder initiates]
[♪]
[silence falls]
Let's get this show on the road!
[door closing]
[belts clicking]
She says she's having a very bad headache.
Oh, Jesus.
[sighing]
[rustling]
Hold tight.
Hmm.
[sighing]
[rustling]
Are these prescription?
Hell, no. You'd never find this shit in a pharmacy.
You know, I'll get through this. I always do.
You just go on ahead without me.
I'll have a meal waiting for you when you get back.
You're gonna take two of these,
and you're gonna meet us in the car in five minutes.
I don't think that I should--
We're not leaving without you.
[sighing]
[raven calls]
[♪]
Wait!
I ca-- I can't do it. I-I can't.
I wish I could, but I can't.
I'm afraid of heights.
Why didn't you tell us this before I bought the tickets?
You were nice enough to buy them.
You could have said no.
I don't want to ruin things.
I will stay.
You travelled all this way!
Fuck, no. I'll stay.
No, I don't want anyone to stay.
Please, go. I...
Just go. I'm sorry. I... look!
I'll play Animal Crackers.
Go!
I love Animal Crackers.
[laughing] It's fine!
I do!
- It's fine. - I do!
Go. Go.
[sighing]
[♪]
Oh, boy.
[chuckling]
Come on.
Ooh. [chuckling]
[♪]
Hello, hello?
[♪]
[snapping]
[chuckling warmly]
Mm.
Do you think Connie feels abandoned?
Uh...
I don't know! I-I wouldn't put it that way!
[Marianne] I'm concerned about her.
Yeah, she'll be okay.
Keep going?
- Yeah. - Okay. [chuckling]
You snatched Shirley out of my hands
and threw her out the window.
[Dougie] Who the hell is Shirley?
I told you, my doll.
You expect me to remember something
that happened 50 years ago?
More like 45 years ago.
Right, thanks.
50 years is a fucking blur, but 45 is crystal clear.
It's coming back to me like it was yesterday.
Oh, whatever, Dougie.
[hanging up]
If I say to you
zero means you are not scared at all,
and ten means you are very scared,
what number are you when you think of the bridge?
20.
Can you just go part of the way?
Why?
We are four here today, not three.
I would like you near to me.
We can try together.
Yeah?
[raven calls]
[whimpering] No.
[whispering] It's okay.
[Connie breathing shakily]
- [whimpering] - Ready?
Just look at me. - I can't.
Look at me. Look at me.
I know. I don't think I can.
Hang onto me.
Okay. We go slow, we go slow, okay?
Mm-hmm.
[bridge creaking faintly]
Ooh...
Just look at me. Look in my eyes.
Look into my eyes. Okay? Look.
[Connie's breath shaking]
[Marianne] Do you want to keep going?
[whimpering] Mm-hmm-hmm.
- Okay. - Okay.
Look at my sister Connie.
She's such a brave girl.
[chuckling]
♪ Slaap, kindje, slaap ♪
♪ Daar buiten loopt een schaap ♪
♪ Slaap, kindje, slaap ♪
♪ Daar buiten loopt een schaap ♪
♪ Een schaap met witte voetjes ♪
♪ Dat drinkt zijn melk zo zoetjes ♪
♪ Slaap, kindje, slaap ♪
♪ Daar buiten loopt een schaap ♪
[Connie's breath shakes]
[laughing]
[Anthony] You're almost there.
Come on.
[Connie giggling]
[she laughs and sobs]
[♪]
- Oh! - [laughing]
[♪]
[Anthony] You did it, Connie.
[Connie crying]
[♪]
Thank you.
[siblings laughing]
That got me thinking about when I was on a canoe trip
at this Bible camp.
One of the canoes flipped, drenching every kid inside.
This one girl, I still remember her name,
Trish,
she offers to dry the soaked pants over a bonfire.
Oh, no!
The first pair of jeans goes up in flames.
[laughing]
Trish flings them...
- Yeah? - ...and they land on a tent.
[laughter]
Two kids grab pots to fill up with lake water.
[Gwen] Yeah?
When they come back, one of 'em is drenched,
because he tumbled in the lake.
Trish takes one look at him and says,
"Do you want me to dry that for you?"
[all cracking up]
[all sighing]
[Gwen] Here we are...
sharing family stories
that we've never even heard before, eh?
She told me some stories.
Who's that?
Our mother. I met her once.
What the hell?
I had to tell you. Now you know.
[sighing]
[♪]
What do you think of going to this place next year?
Um...
It's very beautiful, Connie,
but for me, for next year,
I would like to see the place where I come from.
This is where you come from. It's Canada.
[Marianne] No. No.
I mean, our, uh...
[Gwen] Our reserve.
Kakihewapiw?
Yeah.
[Gwen] Our people,
not some fancy house with six bathrooms.
I spent a week online trying to find this place.
Nobody complained when I booked it.
Now?
[Connie] I thought we'd start with a warmup
before we break into teams.
What, do you got cheerleaders lined up too, or what?
"What is the most widely eaten fruit in America?"
I'm not timing you or anything.
Apples?
Mm-mm.
Uh, an orange?
No.
Bananas?
If you're not gonna play properly,
don't play at all.
"How many golf balls are there on the moon?"
Why didn't you tell us you met our mother?
I have my reasons.
Oh, yeah?
We're listening.
What are they?
"Three."
What?
There are three golf balls on the moon.
How long were you gonna sit on this little secret of yours?
How many feet in a fathom?
Fuck you.
I'm outta here.
Gwen...
you don't mean that.
Yeah, I do.
[slaps cards down]
[footsteps receding]
[closing boxes]
[Gwen] I'm not waiting for the sun to rise, George.
[George] I can't open it up.
Can't do it.
[tearfully] No one's asking you to pick at a scab.
I don't have it in me. The...
The what?
I'm not brave like you.
The hell you're not.
Listen up.
You need to get your shit together
in the next year,
for the next time.
You hear me?
[♪]
[knocking]
Connie?
[door creaks open]
Hey, Connie?
[light clicks on]
[quietly] Marianne.
Marianne, wake up!
Hey!
Connie is gone.
What time is it?
[Gwen] It's late.
Oh, God.
Should we tell Anthony?
No. No need to spread the worry,
plus he takes forever to get ready.
Where the fuck can she be?
[Marianne sighs]
[Gwen] Connie?
Connie!
Oh, my God. I know.
I know I was too hard on her.
I think so, yeah.
But isn't that what sisters do?
They call each other out.
[sighing] Maybe,
but have we even been sisters long enough for that?
[river rushing]
Connie!
[Marianne] There she is.
Connie.
I was a shit for lacing into you like that.
It's just, you know,
dropping that bomb about our mother?
[mocks explosion] Pshew!
I came here to talk to her.
I wanted her permission to tell her story.
I was with her for about an hour.
Not yet. Not here.
Besides... bears.
[river rushing]
I brought biscuits and we sipped tea,
and she told me some stories...
about growing up on the reserve
with all her cousins and siblings...
about meeting our dad when she was 15...
and how hard it was when he died.
She didn't want to talk about us being taken away,
but she told me she'd been sick for a really long time...
and she told me I needed to go home,
our home,
Kakia...
Kakihewa...
[slowly] Kakihewapiw.
[Connie] Kakihewapiw.
[quietly] Yeah.
I went... before I found all of you.
I didn't belong. [chuckling sadly]
They were warm and welcoming, but it felt so...
foreign.
[sighing]
I planned to stay for three days.
I barely lasted one.
I felt...
so... ashamed at being an outsider,
for not being the me that they deserved.
I kept wanting to apologize to all of them
and to our mother for...
because I-I'd let her down.
That's where we're from.
That's our home, no matter what.
Then why...
why did I feel so small?
[Gwen] Because when that's all you've ever been told,
it doesn't take long to believe it.
She told me about George...
how he tried to be the man of the house.
He once attacked two social workers.
It took three cops to hold him down.
He had it the hardest,
'cause, I mean, he was the oldest.
Nobody wanted to adopt him,
and all those foster families,
they just...
they just beat everything out of him.
[♪]
[songbirds chirping]
[door opening]
[Marianne takes a deep breath]
[door latches shut]
I am ready when you are ready.
You are ready?
No.
[laughing] Come on, let's go.
[♪]
Come on, Anthony!
You can do it!
I should've done more!
I should've stepped in
when Connie and Gwen were going at each other
last night.
I should've gone back for Connie at the Skybridge.
That's a big brother's job!
George isn't here to step in, so I should.
You want to stay safe, you keep your mouth shut.
That's what I learned as a kid.
Don't step in.
Don't step up. Don't speak out.
I kept to myself to save myself.
[Marianne] I am realizing there are many moments I missed.
I did not hear Anthony when he is seven years old...
crying in the driveway,
all his clothes in garbage bags.
I never said I was crying.
[sobbing]
Mm.
How much pavement
do you have to pound before you feel better?
[tearfully, muffled] Five kilometres.
I didn't catch that.
Five kilometres.
Shit.
[sighing]
You were the finish line.
At the Skybridge.
You were Connie's finish line.
You were exactly where she needed you to be.
Don't tell me I need to be your finish line too.
[tender theme plays]
[♪]
[Gwen] So?
Who's gonna offer the tobacco to the elders?
[Anthony] I will.
[Connie] Oh, no! I forgot the tins.
[Marianne] Can you use your cigarettes?
[Gwen] Well, guess we'll have to.
[Connie] Do you think the elders will mind?
[Gwen] Tobacco is tobacco.
[♪]
[scraping]
[viewfinder beeps]
What kind of animal is this?
This is an elk, but we call it a wapiti.
One second.
[♪]
Guys!
[Connie chuckles] Marianne?
[Alma] Marianne?
[chuckling]
Hello!
It's so nice to see you again.
You have to meet my husband, Simon.
- It's very nice to meet you. - Marianne.
This is my brother, Anthony.
[Simon] Anthony.
Hello.
Hi.
My sister, Gwen.
- Gwen. - Gwen?
Yeah. Gwen.
And my sister Connie.
- Connie. - It's nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you.
Oh. Yeah.
Uh, this is for both of you.
Oh, geez.
Tobacco is tobacco.
[Alma] Thank you.
[Simon] Thank you.
Marianne was, uh, telling me that you were scooped?
Did you know your mother and your father?
Our father was sick for a really long time.
[Alma] Mm.
She had her hands full taking care of him,
and one day,
she forgot to pick George and Anthony up from school,
so they called the social workers in.
Gwen was next.
Then they had Marianne, and then me,
and once he passed,
they took us too.
Let's go outside.
[fire crackling]
Well, welcome.
We're gonna have our, um, grandson, Dustin,
do a-a smudging ceremony for us, okay?
How old are you, Dustin?
11.
Oh.
Know what I was doing when I was 11?
No.
Yeah, you don't want to know.
[sighs tensely]
[striking match]
Ahâw.
We'd really like, um,
Dustin to, um, sing an honour song for you.
[begins drumming softly, then louder]
[singing in vocables]
[Dustin continues singing and drumming]
[singing in vocables]
[singing]
[Dustin sings more softly]
[song ends]
[elders chuckling]
[Alma] Meewasin.
[Simon] Yeah.
[grandparents chuckling]
After so many years,
why did you choose to come together?
Well, about 10 years ago,
this woman stops me in a drugstore and says
I'm the spitting image of Brenda P... [sighing]
Piyesis?
Mm.
[Connie] I'd never heard of her.
Brenda was our mother's sister.
By that time, Margaret was in a bad state.
I didn't spend more than an hour with her.
My adoptive parents begged me
to leave it alone,
so I couldn't say or do anything.
For years, my brothers kept saying
that it would kill them if I did.
My parents passed away recently.
After that, I knew it was time to find you.
[chair creaking]
You don't have to stand.
I want to.
[Simon] Mm.
My daughter is gonna have a baby soon.
Meewasin.
Thank you.
The thing is,
I had Janine when I was young.
Didn't have anything to give her,
so I left her with her mother.
My wife, Charlene,
is a person who has always pushed me.
She kept telling me...
I gotta give both my kids
this part of me that...
...that I don't have.
I started growing my hair a while back...
because I saw photos of Indians,
and I thought that's how I should look.
And I thought it would help me.
56.
What do I even have to give this new baby?
I have a nice life in Antwerp.
[Alma] Mm.
Nice is, nice, yeah, but...
nice is not enough.
My brother and my sisters
are giving to me something
very necessary.
[Alma] Gwen?
Some other time, okay?
Now is a good time.
Not for me.
When I was seven years old,
I was sent to Saint Mary's.
When I came back home at 16...
I was damaged.
They tried to break us.
You have to find the pieces that belong to you,
and put yourselves back together.
You are each other's pieces.
We know there are many of you out there.
We never forgot you.
[Alma] Welcome back.
[sniffling]
[exhaling]
[Simon speaks quietly]
Real tears. - [Anthony] Thank you.
[tender piano theme plays]
[Alma] Come here.
[Alma] You're good at what you do.
[sniffling]
You'll be okay.
- Thank you. - Everything's gonna be okay.
[Anthony sniffling]
[Marianne cries deeply]
[quietly] Thank you so much.
[Alma] Oh. Oh...
[Simon] Do this together.
[speaking quietly]
[Alma] In time. Okay? In time.
It's okay now.
You found your place together.
[Alma chuckles]
[Simon] When you go back to your homelands,
you will have each other.
[taking photo]
[♪]
[footsteps approach]
[sniffling deeply]
Look at us.
Tourists in our own fuckin' country.
Please don't do that to yourself.
[Gwen] You heard what that old man said.
Gotta keep picking up the pieces
and gluin' them back together again.
I thought I was done!
And then you guys show up.
You want us to leave?
Fuck, no, Anthony!
Can I sit here?
You just did, didn't ya?
What were you doing when you were 15, Marianne?
I was, uh, running in races.
I had to give up my babies.
My twins.
Val and Johnny!
The social worker drilled it into my head
that I was gonna ruin their lives.
That is so awful, Gwen. So unfair.
[Gwen] The booze was eating me up inside,
but it was never enough to take away that pain, you know?
Fuck.
[she sniffles]
We want to hear the rest of your story.
[sniffling]
Which part?
The part when I was 22,
and a woman named Donna
saved my sorry ass at Pine Grove...
because I was shaking like a wet dog with DTs?
Hmm?
We need to know everything.
I just don't think a long weekend's long enough
for fuckin' my story.
[Connie] We have time.
[Gwen] It's been so hard doing this alone.
The only thing that's kept me going is Kai.
[sobbing]
[sobbing inconsolably]
[Gwen sobs]
My shoes are soaked.
My feet are fuckin' freezing.
[laughing and crying]
I love you guys!
[taking a shaky breath]
I love you guys. [sobbing]
[Connie] We love you too.
[Gwen sobs]
[Gwen sighs]
[♪]
[together] ♪ Happy birthday ♪
♪ To us ♪
♪ Happy birthday ♪
♪ To us ♪
♪ Happy birthday, dear... ♪
♪ Connie, Gwen Marianne, me, and George ♪
[laughter]
[together] ♪ Happy birthday ♪
♪ To us ♪
[inhaling]
Okay, so before we all dig in,
Marianne and I have a surprise.
They are all the same.
One for you.
Wow.
That's... that's beautiful.
Thank you. Both of you.
[turning pages]
It's only half-filled.
That's on purpose.
I get it.
Right here?
Picture of my grandkid.
Right here
will be the pictures of you visiting me in Belgium.
Uh...
[sighing]
I just can't seem to shake this hurt.
I don't know.
[Anthony] This.
Us.
The four of us,
together for the first time,
should have been five.
The thing is...
we have more now
than we did four days ago.
A lot more.
Yeah.
Oh!
[sniffling]
I'm done with these tears, damn it.
Let's have some cake.
[all chuckling]
Okay.
What's it called
when you flip a coin from knuckle to knuckle?
It's not a trick.
[Janine] I don't know.
It doesn't disappear...
but I think she'll like it.
Yeah.
It's late.
Simon told me
I can give your baby something that no one else can.
A piece of me, right?
Who's Simon?
An elder.
You're spending time with an elder?
I was thinking...
your baby will have something I never had when I was a kid.
What, some kind of toy?
Grandparents.
I'm really glad you went.
Yeah?
Yeah.
[peaceful and uplifting music plays]
[♪]
- I gotta go. - [Connie laughs]
I gotta go.
[chuckling] Yeah.
Next time, we run a marathon together.
I don't think so...
but I'll be your finish line.
[sniffling]
[sighing] I must go.
[kissing]
[sniffling]
Thank you.
[kissing]
- Okay. - Okay.
- [chuckling] - Okay.
- Bye. - Bye.
[buoyant piano theme begins]
[♪]
[Blue Rodeo's "Lost Together" plays]
♪ Strange and beautiful are the stars tonight ♪
♪ That dance around your head ♪
♪ In your eyes I see that perfect world ♪
♪ I hope that doesn't sound too weird ♪
♪ And I want all the world to know ♪
♪ That your love's all I need ♪
♪ All that I need ♪
♪ And if we're lost ♪
♪ Then we are lost together ♪
♪ Yeah, if we're lost ♪
♪ We are lost together ♪
♪ I stand before this faceless crowd ♪
♪ I wonder why I bother ♪
♪ So much controlled by so few ♪
♪ Stumbling from one disaster to another ♪
♪ I've heard it all so many times before ♪
♪ It's all a dream to me now ♪
♪ A dream to me now ♪
♪ And if we're lost ♪
♪ We are lost together ♪
♪ Yeah, if we're lost ♪
♪ We are lost together ♪
♪ In the silence of this whispered night ♪
♪ I listen only to your breath ♪
♪ And in that second of a shooting star ♪
♪ Somehow it all makes sense ♪
♪ And I want all the world to know ♪
♪ That your love's all I need ♪
♪ All that I need ♪
♪ And if we're lost ♪
♪ Then we are lost together ♪
♪ Yeah, if we're lost ♪
♪ We are lost together ♪
♪ Oh ♪
♪ Yeah, if we're lost ♪
♪ Then we are lost together ♪
♪ Yeah, if we're lost ♪
♪ Then we are lost together ♪
♪ Together, together ♪