On the Farm (2016)

• 70%
• 2016
• Drama
• TV Movie
• Rachel Talalay
• Sara Canning
• Patrick Gallagher
• Sarah Strange

Some who work and/or live in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver know that many marginalized women have gone missing, those women largely sex trade workers, largely with substance abuse problems, and largely indigenous. Those that are aware of this issue include the women at risk themselves who see their friends one day and gone the next, Elaine and Honey, a social worker and her public health nurse respectively who work with these women in a day in and day out basis, and VPD Constable Sinead McLeod, who walks the beat in this neighborhood. McLeod is the exception to the rule within the VPD, most other constables who harass the sex trade workers, and the highers up, such as Deputy Police Chief Quinn, hiding behind the fact that there are no "bodies" and no actual reports of anyone missing that did not arguably leave on their own volition without a word, as this population is largely vagrant. It is also a non-issue at City Hall, as the politicians secretly see those purported missing women as non-voters. The face of this story of the women at risk is Nikki Taylor, a sex trade worker, a drug user, a single mother, and indigenous. Nikki's young adolescent son Evan is cared for by Nikki's Aunt Ada Taylor, who does whatever she needs to protect Evan from Nikki and her destructive behavior. As steps finally seem to be taken at an official level to address the missing women issue, albeit those steps being somewhat baby ones, Nikki has to decide if she will cooperate with the process which she may see as placing her and her family at greater risk, and even if she does whether the legal system will view her as reliable.