A sweeping historical drama of love, betrayal, and a homeland that refuses to disappear.
In 1754, Mi'kma'ki, the land of the Mi'kmaq people, is caught between the warring British and French empires and a people threatened by oaths and exile.
Alexandre, a young Acadian carpenter shaped by love and loss, watches the world he knows as "Acadia," fracture under British demands and French promises that arrive too little and too late.
Wasueg, a fierce and quietly unbreakable Mi'kmaw woman, is pulled into the storm from another side, caught between kinship, survival, and the dangerous gravity of men who claim what they cannot rightfully earn.
They came from different worlds - Alexandre from squared timber, church bells, and fields wrestled from the tide; Wasueg from river-paths, cedar smoke, and stories that spoke from the land.
But when their hands met in a shared time of darkness, and their eyes held without fear, the distance between those worlds shrank to nothing.
In the end, the oath he kept was to her.