Café Daughter

Inspired by real events, Café Daughter tells the story of nine year old half-Chinese, half-Cree girl Yvette Wong, who, on top of struggling to find her place in a small Saskatchewan community in the 1960s, is also faced with the passing of her mother, Katherine. Yvette begins to explore and embrace her Cree identity when she befriends Maggie Wolf a part Mi'kmaq girl who encourages Yvette to be proud of her ancestry. Yvette confronts discrimination at school when her Cree ancestry is revealed but perseveres and goes on to pursue her dream of going to medical school.