A Multi-Award winning crime thriller.  (Crime/Noir/Sci-fi/Diversity/Supernatural)

Logline

In an environmentally unstable world, a solitary, Indigenous bounty hunter joins her detective father and their robot sidekick to pursue a killer, only to discover that the very thing she has been running from is her one shot to capture the killer, heal her past, and alter the future.

SYNOPSIS:

In a volatile, climate-changed environment, a group of diverse Gen Z misfits are seeped in existential angst over their uncertain future and respond accordingly through protests, podcasts, social media, technology, and art, while maintaining some semblance of normalcy and ‘doing life’ as best they can. To add gasoline to the fire, a serial killer is on the loose in their midst and is preying upon seemingly random victims, including individuals in the Gen Z friend group.

Within this ‘climatezilla’ mosh pit, Alaska Rainmaker, an Indigenous/Metis bounty hunter still troubled by childhood visions of her mother’s murder, lives alone on the fringes of society as she struggles to keep the past trauma from ruining her life. When her father, Jake, a seasoned detective, seeks her help to stop the killer, she agrees to join the investigation if he helps her with her mother’s still unsolved murder. He reluctantly agrees to the deal and together they, along with Ama, their human-like robot sidekick, begin to unravel the case by following clues and descending deeper into the city's dark underbelly and the labyrinth of the diverse Gen-Z characters including a lead female podcaster, a blue-skinned healer, a transgender activist, a clairvoyant, a cosplaying army veteran, a punk rock band, a museum curator, a female robot, and an already imprisoned serial killer.

Jake leads the by-the-book approach to the investigation; however, when the killer’s latest victims share wounds like her mother’s, Alaska forms a theory that a Wendigo, an evil spirit based on her cultural lore, may be involved. While Jake resists this interpretation of the ‘evidence’ and follows the facts, Alaska navigates her way deeper into her own culture to help gain some insight and understanding into what they may be up against.

With the help of her grandmother and her ancestors, Alaska discovers that the Wendigo is not just any old shadowy creature; it can shapeshift, possess your psyche, and often appears when mankind has overconsumed and cannibalized the resources of Mother Earth - a climatezilla if you will. She also learns about and embraces her traditional, ancestral superpower known as Maskwa. As it turns out, Maskwa, an ancient bear medicine, is not just the missing antidote that could help her find the killer and defeat the Wendigo, but it could also help her heal her own personal, ancestral, and cultural trauma - along with healing Mother Earth herself.

MASKWA