Stephen Mcgeegan

Nations Apart Stephen Mcgeegan

FOR SEVEN DAYS IN ARGENTINA, historic events and past lives seek resolution and redemption.

On August 10th, 1965, while the Canadian church and state are well into executing cultural genocide, a priest and a policeman pry three aboriginal children from the care of their mother and father in the wilderness of British Columbia and place them in an abusive residential school. In less than a year, one sister disappears.

On August 15th, 1972, the military government of Argentina is fully committed to waging a brutal Dirty War against its adversaries and a daring mass prison escape on the Patagonian coast nets ten political prisoners freedom. Nineteen others are captured, taken to a military base and massacred. One last prisoner is nowhere to be found.

On December 18th, 2001, Leonard Frank, a wildfire specialist for the British Columbia government, is sent to Buenos Aires on a mission of international cooperation just as the Argentine national economy disintegrates and the government is on the edge of collapse. There are mass demonstrations, widespread looting and gunshots in the night. Within twenty-four hours of arriving, Leonard drops out of sight.