I want people to understand that this is something that was almost like planting little bombs, like weaponizing people and sending them back into the community carrying all of this harm and suffering.”

“You know, the science is more and more clear that intergenerational trauma is real and significant and it passes on. The experience of that trauma, the impacts and effects of it is lived out in front of their children and it carries on through. This is why that trauma is lived out in the survivors. “Then you add on to it no contact for some of these people, no contact with their families or parents for a decade in some cases. Because that’s the whole point for me is that it’s accessible.” Some of it was obviously extremely emotional and really challenging to just hit the right note, so that the heart of the story is there and accessible. It was like I became a conduit for these stories as opposed to a creator of them. “The characters were real living characters.

They were really alive in me - they still are - to the point where I would be working away and this voice, if you will, would come into my head and say: ‘I would not say that.’ “For me, it was more like I was telling their stories for them. “These characters came alive really, really early on in the process,” said Good. Their stories, while they obviously overlap greatly, are all very different tales of survival and trying to cope while searching for some solid footing and a way to overcome or even forget their past as they search for a future. Article contentĬlara, Kenny, Lucy, Howie and Maisie are snatched as kids and then pushed out into the world with no support, money or idea of what to expect. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.Vancouver Sun Run: Sign up & event info.

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