A lawyer (Holm), pursued by the demons of losing a daughter to drugs, comes to a Canadian town where 20 children have died in a school bus accident. He wants the parents to sue, to make those at fault pay. Told partly in flashbacks, dramatizing the days leading up to the accident, this insightful story also follows the lawyer from family to family as he coaxes them to join the lawsuit. One teen (Polley) survives, paralyzed. She has become the lame child left behind in “The Pied Piper of Hamelin,” which she had read aloud to a child the night before the accident. Her important testimony is motivated by a troubled relationship with her father. A complex and haunting tale of loss and forgiveness that is sure to touch viewers and make them think.

Winner of eight Genie Awards and two Oscar nominations.

“A rich, complex meditation on the impact of a terrible tragedy on a small town.” —Brendan Kelly, Variety