The Traveller

A successful international art dealer specializing in Native Indian masks of the Pacific Northwest returns to Vancouver on a business trip. Not far from where he was raised among Natives, Robert's past will come rushing at him with the force of an offshore squall. Confronted by the troubling discrepancy between what he has become and what he was (once married to an Indian woman, he spent his university years as an activist for Native rights), Robert finds himself vertiginously suspended between vastly distinct cultural spheres. Yet, try as he does to divest himself of the trappings and priorities of the white culture, Robert finds his old life resistant to instant reclamation — it can't be picked up like an old jacket.