Using quotes from documentaries covering the missing and murdered indigenous women along the Highway of Tears - a notorious stretch of road that runs across British Columbia, weaving through giant pine forests and remote villages.

Hitchhiking was an acceptable form of transportation.
It’s an hour to buy groceries, five to the nearest hospital.
The government wouldn’t give us a bus.
My baby sister, she wanted to reach her friends faster.
She doesn’t want to be found, they said, maybe she is in California.
Our girls have been disappearing since the 70s,
The newspaper wouldn’t cover it
until that white woman went missing.
She put the highway on the map.
When her father went to the police
they were so helpful, so concerned, on top of the case.

Police were so helpful, so concerned, on top of the case
when that white woman’s father reported her missing.
She put the highway on the map.
Up until her disappearance,
the newspaper wouldn’t cover it.
Our girls had been disappearing since the 70s.
They don’t want to be found, they said, maybe they’re in California.
My baby sister, she just wanted to reach her friends faster.
The government still won’t give us a bus.
It’s an hour to buy groceries, five to the hospital.
Hitchhiking is a form of transportation.