Annie, along with a friend, visit Toronto to see the city and also look into Suzanne's disappearance. She stays, looking to track down her sister, but it becomes clear Suzanne (a model) was into bad things. Annie, along with her family, are increasingly endangered by the drug dealers after what she learns about Suzanne.
Tropes:
- Above the Influence: Jesse rejects Annie's coming on to him while she's high the first time, but then has sex with her anyway shortly after this.
- Action Girl: Annie learned to hunt and shoot from her Uncle Will, which she uses very effectively in the film to protect her family. The poster shows her sighting down a rifle's scope.
- Always Identical Twins: Annie and Suzanne are identical twins (played by the same actress). As little girls, only their mother and Uncle Will could tell them apart.
- Ambiguously Absent Parent: Annie and Suzanne's father is not around, or even mentioned in the film. However, Uncle Will, their mother's brother, fills in as a paternal figure to them.
- Ancestral Weapon: Will has his grandfather's rifle, who fought using it during World War Two, which he threatens Marius' gang with once when they come to confront him. Later he shoots Marcus with it too.
- Badass in Distress: Will is beaten twice by drug dealers seeking to learn where his niece Suzanne has gone to, while he's adept using a rifle otherwise. The second time leaves him hospitalized.
- Badass Native: Will is skilled with a rifle, easily sniping Marius using it. His niece Annie too, having learned from him, guns down two drug dealers. Both are Cree.
- Bittersweet Ending: Annie saves both her mother and uncle from the drug dealers, returning home. Will recovers and wakes up. Suzanne is still missing though, along with thousands of young indigenous women in Canada, and probably dead.
- Country Mouse: Annie comes from Moosonee, a rural town in the north of Ontario living with mostly other Cree people. On visiting Toronto, the provincial capital, with her friend, both of them are pretty overawed by the city at first. Annie is clearly a Fish out of Water there at first. She's quite unused to the spotlight, acting stricken in the wake of an interview she does with Jesse for instance.
- Domestic Abuse: Suzanne was abused by her boyfriend Gus, but she refused to leave him, coming to work with a black eye because of it once.
- The Film of the Book: It's the adaptation of a novel with the same name by Joseph Boyden in 2008.
- Friendly Sniper: Will is a nice man overall, though when pushed sufficiently he shoots Marius in the head to protect his family against his gang, sniping him in his car when he drives past from a building with his rifle.
- The Ghost: Suzanne never once appears in the film (although her disappearance sparks its plot), aside from her modeling shots. The same goes for her boyfriend Gus.
- How We Got Here: The film opens with Will being threatened by men, then shows what led up to this later near the end.
- The Informant: Will is thought to be a police informant by Marius' gang, who harass and threaten him for it. It's actually his sister Lisette.
- Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: Danny chokes Annie, throws hot water on Lisette and later clubs Will trying to information from them about Suzanne's location.
- Kick the Dog: Marius and his gang kill the black bear Will had been feeding as a warning to him that his sister is next.
- Ms. Fanservice:
- Suzanne worked as a model before her disappearance. She was very beautiful, with her modeling shots seen at the studio naturally having her in revealing outfits.
- Annie, her twin sister, is briefly shown topless while in bed with Jesse post coitus then nude from behind and the side while dressing afterward.
- Outside/Inside Slur: Annie calls Jesse a fake Indian, as he's living in the city with white friends in a modern, urban style, but she apologizes for it later (he doesn't care).
- Parental Substitute: Annie and Suzanne's birth father is not around (nor even mentioned in the film). However, Uncle Will (their mother's brother) basically serves as their dad.
- Pet the Dog: Will first spares an old blind female black bear, then starts to feed her sympathetically. He respectfully covers her with a blanket and holds what seems like a mini funeral when she dies.
- Polar Opposite Twins: Despite them being identical, Annie and Suzanne are opposites in many ways. Before going to search for her sister, Annie seemed happy living in their rural home town, which Suzanne hated, leaving it for Toronto. Annie wears more masculine clothes mostly, while Suzanne became a model. Suzanne had gotten in trouble with drugs and an abusive boyfriend; conversely Annie is a sober, very responsible person overall.
- Riddle for the Ages: The characters and thus the audience never find out what became of Suzanne, though it was almost certainly nothing good.
- Sexy Discretion Shot: Annie begins getting it on with Jesse on his couch. Then the scene cuts to them post-coitus while in his bed together.
- She Cleans Up Nicely: After meeting Geeta, a model who was her sister's roommate, Annie puts on the makeup and an outfit which her sister Suzanne left behind. Though she is beautiful regardless, before she'd worn plain, more utilitarian clothing and looks stunning in them, as Geeta gushes about.
