A band of siblings who were once robbers, thieves and killers of the west, decide to fulfill their fathers dying wish of abandoning their life of crime and pursuing the path of the holy. A post-apocalyptic Western about a divinely inspired family that must battle the most horrific forces of evil, testing their faith and evolving each one of them.
Deprimido y tambaleándose por la reciente muerte de su esposa, Tom ha acumulado una gran deuda de juego. Se va a quedar con su rica tía Florence con la esperanza de que ella lo escriba en su testamento. Cuando un acreedor desagradable deja en claro que Tom no tiene tiempo, él idea un plan con Elodie, la hija del empresario de pompas fúnebres, para robar las tumbas de los ricos habitantes enterrados en el cementerio al otro lado de la calle. Después de saquear las tumbas, Tom regresa a la casa de Florence y los acontecimientos toman un giro oscuro. Tom comienza a escuchar y ver cosas extrañas que parecen coincidir con la muerte de las personas a las que robó. Aún más desconcertante... él parece ser el único que detecta los sucesos. Una pregunta persiste: ¿la conciencia de Tom le está jugando una mala pasada... o realmente está siendo perseguido por aquellos a quienes robó?
The early 1960s: In preparation for his Bar Mitzvah, a Jewish boy, Max Glick (Noam Zylberman) from a small Manitoba community with an overbearing family tries to navigate his coming-of-age with his family's condescension and bigotry using his sarcastic, Jewish humour. The town's rabbi dies, and a sub-plot develops in which Max's father (Aaron Schwartz) and grandfather (Jan Rubes)-both synagogue leaders-are saddled with a traditional Hassidic rabbi who sticks out like a sore thumb among the otherwise assimilated Jewish community. To make matters more difficult, Max likes a Catholic girl (14 year old Fairuza Baulk in just her third film), whom he later competes with in a piano competition. The quirky, fun-loving rabbi tries to help him with his problems, yet harbours a secret ambition of his own.
Filmed in Winnipeg and rural Beausejour, Manitoba, Canada.
This rarely-screened teleplay written by Rick Salutin offers a dramatic glimpse into Canada’s Red Scare that pre-dated the rise of McCarthyism in the United States. John Grierson and his National Film Board of Canada become targets of an anti-Communist blacklist in the immediate post-war years, after Soviet clerk Igor Gouzenko produced documents revealing a spy ring operating in Canada. With a cast featuring Eric Peterson as Grierson, Saul Rubinek as Gouzenko, and Aaron Schwartz as Communist Party MP Fred Rose, this forgotten piece of Canadian history is brought to life in a very compelling CBC drama.
