Stolen ancestors lie in museum vaults, waiting to return home. Oceanbone is a poetic reckoning with history, confronting the colonial theft of Indigenous remains and the urgent fight to bring them back.

A wetland restoration project takes an unexpected turn when they discover the land is an ancient Indigenous village, triggering a clash between settler ideals, suppressed Indigenous laws, and the living descendants of a people Canada still deems extinct.

Forced from their land decades ago, the Dene people of the Seal River Watershed fight to reclaim their place as stewards of their ancestral territory.