Review: ‘Sugarcane’ unearths abuses of a Canadian school program meant for Indigenous children

1. A rundown barn where, long ago, children who were trapped wrote messages such as “73 days more.” An elderly woman, a victim of a priest’s abuse during her youth, recalls the day when she first resorted to alcohol. An unattended newborn growing up to become an indifferent father, whose own son prevents three generations from enduring solitude.








