HUNT THE STARS 3

OFFICIAL DESCRIPTION

On March 3, 1971, Gisele Joseph arrived in Quebec pregnant with her last son, in the middle of the storm of the century. A doctor who had answered the Quebec government's call for health professionals, she had to leave her six children behind when their visas were not issued in time — they rejoined her only six months later. Six months for a mother without her children is hell. Racism was at its peak; it was the era of Mesrine. The government that sought health professionals no longer recognized her medical degree, dismissing it as a "banana republic diploma." So she started over, studied, and passed the exams with the highest honors. Then her husband Occem died of cancer at Santa Cabrini Hospital, leaving her a widow raising six children alone. At 88, her story ended in a CHSLD in Scarborough. According to her family's account, her oxygen supply was voluntarily interrupted. She died on July 25. But her death is not the end of her story. Somewhere beyond this life, two children remain for her to find again: her son Jimmy and her daughter Adeline. She crossed a country, the cold, racism, grief, and 88 years of hardship. Now one last frontier remains — she sets out in search of her children.