Twelve-year-old Beans is on the edge. Torn between innocent childhood and delinquent adolescence, she is forced to grow up fast to become the tough Mohawk warrior that she needs to be during the Indigenous uprising known as The Oka Crisis, which tore Quebec and Canada apart for 78 tense days in the summer of 1990. The land dispute between the Mohawk nation of Kanesatake and Kahnawà:ke and the town of Oka, Quebec, was the first well-publicized violent conflict between First Nations and the Quebec and Canadian governments in the late 20th century, resulting in two fatalities. -- Adapted from container, Wikipedia, and director's website.