Mary Ellen Johnson Davis has been missing since the eve of Thanksgiving 2020 from the Tulalip Reservation. She is only one of hundreds of Native American women who continue to go missing in the U.S. As director Sabrina Van Tassel investigates Mary Ellen’s case, dozens of Native women speak up about the violence suffered and observed by them. From Deborah Parker, activist and indigenous leader, to Deb Haaland, US Secretary of the Interior, to many of Mary Ellen’s friends and family, the film threads a haunting but important report about these underlooked cases and the urgency for attention and action in these investigations. 

In this careful and pressing documentary, Van Tassel returns to Tribeca to shed light on the ongoing and continuously unsolved disappearances of Native American women across the country. The story of Mary Ellen Johnson Davis opens up a broader conversation about the violence and generational trauma suffered by Native American communities, as well as the fallible laws and lack of investigation surrounding them.––Marina Gandour

Sabrina Van Tassel