When Jennifer Abbott lost her sister to cancer, her grief opened her up to the profound gravity of climate collapse, drawing intimate parallels between personal and planetary grief experiences. The frontline stories of climate change merge with the director’s childhood memories of Georgian Bay in Ontario. What do these stories have in common? The answer is, surprisingly: everything.

In her cinematic journey, the Sundance Award-winning Director Jennifer Abbott (The Corporation) draws intimate parallels between experiences of grief, both personal and planetary. Frontline stories about climate change merge with the director’s childhood memories of Georgian Bay in Ontario. What do these stories have in common? The answer is, surprisingly: everything. The film takes us around the world to witness a planet in crisis: from the catastrophic Australian wildfires and the dying Great Barrier Reef, to the island nation of Kiribati, drowned by rising sea levels. In Nunatsiavut, melting ice permanently alters the landscape, while in the Amazon rainforest, indigenous people fight a desperate battle against oil and mining.