At a young age, Loretta and Henry realize they have to fend for themselves because their parents have given up.

Those Without Friends, God Puts in Families

Jane Luk

Liam Ma

Danielle Ayow

Simon Sinn

Streams Flow From a River

Benny and the Jets

Gordon Chow, proprietor of the Liquor & Laundromat in Frank, Alberta, has a stroke. His adult children return to a home they wish they could forget.

Frank Liquor & Laundromat

Stuck at home in the snowstorm, Loretta and Henry are forced to recount the trauma that lingers in their family home. They retreat to the comfort of the friends they left behind.

Two Slow Dancers

Cornered about her broken marriage by her children, Diana retreats to the church and reminisces over her close friendship with a minister-in-training.

Solitaire

Gordon wakes up and rushes to reopen the Liquor & Laundromat. He is forced to confront the truth that he has denied for three decades; his dreams for him and his family to have a good life have failed.

Gordon decides to reconcile with the sins of his past to save his family’s future.

A freak snowstorm traps a dysfunctional Chinese Canadian family together in their rural Albertan hometown, forcing them to confront the events a decade prior that tore them all apart.

Those Without Friends, God Puts in Families

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