What it’s about

In the early 1900s, Black families leave Jim Crow Oklahoma and follow the North Star into the Canadian Prairies, drawn by the promise of land and the possibility of breathing room. In Amber Valley, Alberta, they build a life through faith, labour, mutual aid, and stubborn hope, even as prejudice, policy, and the Prairie itself test what they’re trying to hold.

Decades later, a present-day descendant is pulled back by a discovery that doesn’t feel accidental: a letter, a name, a missing thread in the family story. What begins as curiosity becomes an investigation, moving through land trails, church memory, and half-buried archives where silence can be as informative as ink.

Where the North Star Leads is about inheritance, not just of land, but of choices, secrets, and the stories we carry when history doesn’t carry us. It asks what it means to return, and what it costs to finally see what was always there.