Passage

With a unique blend of dramatic action and behindthescenes documentary footage filmmaker John Walker shares the multilayered story of British explorer Sir John Franklin and his crew of 128 men who perished in the Arctic ice during an illfated attempt to discover the Northwest Passage and John Rae the Scottish doctor who in 1851 discovered their dismal fate Raes dark report which described the crews madness and cannibalism did not sit well with Sir Johns widow Lady Franklin nor with many others in British society including Charles Dickens They waged a bitter public campaign to discredit Raes version of events and mark an entire nation of northern Inuit with the label of murderous cannibals A stunning facetoface meeting between the greatgreat grandson of Charles Dickens and Tagak Curley an honoured Inuit statesman who challenges the fraudulent history vaults the story from the past into the present and we are witness to history in the making