Colin Lorimer

Five hundred miles north of Vancouver is Kitamaat, an Indian reservation in the homeland of the Haisla people. Growing up a tough, wild tomboy, swimming, fighting, and fishing in a remote village where the land slips into the green ocean on the edge of the world, Lisamarie has always been different. Visited by ghosts and shapeshifters, tormented by premonitions, she can't escape the sense that something terrible is waiting for her. She recounts her enchanted yet scarred life as she journeys in her speedboat up the frigid waters of the Douglas Channel. She is searching for her brother, dead by drowning, and in her own way running as fast as she can toward danger. Circling her brother's tragic death are the remarkable characters that make up her family: Lisamarie's parents, struggling to join their Haisla heritage with Western ways; Uncle Mick, a Native rights activist and devoted Elvis fan; and the headstrong Ma-ma-oo (Haisla for "grandmother"), a guardian of tradition.

Parent and child journey through the outskirts of society a decade after a pandemic has wiped out half the world's population. As a father struggles to protect his child, their bond—and the character of humanity—is tested.

氷河期。とある村の若者ケダは首長である父らと初めての狩りに出るが、バイソンの群れに襲われ、断崖絶壁から転落してしまった。気絶から痛みと寒さで目覚めた彼は、自分がひとり取り残されてしまったことを知る。程なく、傷つき弱った彼をオオカミの群れが狙うが、ケダは群れのボスを倒してなんとかオオカミたちを追い払う。だが、心優しい彼は手負いのボスにとどめを刺せず、アルファと名付けてともに旅をする。