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Description
The near future, a military occupation controls disenfranchised cities in postwar North America. Children are property of the state State. Niska, a Cree mother, is on the run with her daughter, Waseece, to keep her from being sent to the State's education camps, known as the Academies. When they are forced to leave their home, Niska makes the painful decision to send Waseece to the Academies, only to realize that she has made a terrible mistake. Niska finds an underground band of Cree vigilantes who raid the Academies at night and joins them, determined to find her daughter and get her back.
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