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Russell lost his hearing at the age of 13. He copes well with his disability, but there is a statement he would like to hear above all others.

Rebecca Thomassie is an Inuk woman and comes from Kangirsuk in the Nunavik region of Canada. It snows there 9 months a year. She would like to document some traditional knowledge about the different ways of naming snow and then teach it to her daughter to ensure the sustainability of her indigenous culture. So she sets off to meet Tommy Kudlak, who tells her that there are 47 different words for snow, some of which he explains to her in more detail.

Eva Kaukai and Manon Chamberland practice the art of throat singing in the small village of Kangirsuk, in their native Canadian Arctic land. Interspliced with footage of the area throughout the four seasons of Kangirsuk by a cinematographer Johnny Nassak.

On a sheet of paper, crumpled with time, a young woman pays tribute to her mother.

As a man goes about his day using paper as his Job and life requires. The more paper the man uses, the more the forests disappear around him until one morning he wakes up in a clear-cut and comes to realize that the forest can only produce so much.

-Dialogue musical entre modernité et tradition.

Jeremy delivers a message of hope by speaking of what gives him joy in life.

Carried away by the gentle sounds of a music box, the difficult transition from childhood to adulthood, between light and shadow.

One Faithful day an unfortunate man tries to change his luck. Finding a lucky penny his fortunes change for the better but not before a warning from a young girl "The penny is only lucky if it's heads up". When our hero drops his penny his luck takes a turn for the worst, lucky for him he finds it again... but this time, it's head's Down.

A trapper finds an unusual creature in the woods. His natural sense of hospitality tells him to bring the creature home and feed it, but can hospitality go too far?

An Algonquin man peacefully enjoys his surrounding in his forest home. After receiving a terrible premonition about a coming danger posing a threat to his family he races to save them. As he runs toward his home the prophecy begins fulfilling. His surrounding change from a traditional mode of life to a modern one before he can make it home. Arriving home he finds his wife entrapped by modern technology. He grabs her to whisk her back to a safe place where they can live a traditional way of life once more.

After a car accident a man is fragmented between reality and the spirit world. As he is brought to the hospital in the physical world; in the spirit world he is compelled to gather the materials to make a drum. In the spirit world unsure of what compels him he crafts his drum as a storm rolls in. In the physical world the doctors trying to revive him lose his heartbeat and declare him dead, but in the spirit world the drum gives him new life.

Sammy Gadbois uses snippets of life in Kuujjuaq to reflect about his own purpose on earth and muses that it could be creating memories.

Inspired by the filmmaker's own experience, this elegant and personal documentary explores the impact of government assimilation and residential schooling on four generations of family.

Today, the man in charge of radio Wemotaci, the Atikamekw musician Patric Boivin, meets the wise man Charles Coocoo. A beautiful film about the importance of the First Nations people to appropriate contemporary media to make the voice of their people heard.

A life is forever changed by rumors in this raw and sincere portrayal of a woman struggling to make sense of her past.

-Music video of Jay Big