Centers on events in the mid-eighteenth century that enabled Americans to give up their loyalty to England and form their own nation, shedding new light on familiar aspects of American history.

Explores how Indigenous groups historically governed themselves, the changes they faced when Europeans arrived in North America, and recent efforts by the Canadian government to restore self-government to Indigenous Peoples.

Despite their political differences Nyl, a young Ukrainian farmer, and Alice, a Canadian girl whose father has come to the Soviet Union, struggle to survive the famine-genocide known as the Holodomor, when the forced collectivization of the Ukrainian farms and hard winters led to mass starvation and death.