North of the 50^th parallel, in the middle of pine trees as far as eye can see, withstanding unending winters: Ekuanitshit, Innu reserve of 600 souls.

I spent a month in Ekuanitshit on the North Shore, during summer solstice. Through days where nighttime gets mixed up with daytime, my affectionate and curious gaze looked upon the Innu youth of this village located at the end of route 138. By focusing on this youth, growing up in a wild playground as vast as impressive, and facing many social and identity problems specific to most aboriginal communities, it can be observed that the territory becomes the metaphor of their wanderings.

These young people that retain a part of their childhood innocence, despite deep scars, are already swimming in the inherent difficulties of aboriginal life in a post-colonial and uneven country that still do not recognize itself as such.

Between the vastness of the landscape and the confinement in which this Innu youth lies, Solstice focuses on the quest for identity of these young people undergoing changes and finding themselves torn between modernity and traditions, the wild territory set in their hearts.

With the Wapikoni Mobile.