In 1845, the British send John Franklin with two ships and three years supply on a well equipped expedition to find the Northwest Passage in the Artic but the group disappears Franklins wife eventually convinces the Admiralty to offer a 20,000 reward She even pursues spirits and psychics In 1854, John Rae Rick Roberts of the Hudsons Bay Company discovers Eskimo tales of the lost Franklin expedition having resorted to cannibalism Many including Lady Franklin with help from Charles Dickens fought against the leaked report condemning Rae to ignominy and elevating Franklin as the hero adventurer who discovered the Passage This is a documentary about John Rae starting with his life and departure from Orkney Rick Roberts studies his life in Orkney and then travels to Canadas north to see the Inuit ways Director John Walker and his actors are working on recreating scenes of the story Its part documentary and part actors workshop Its an usual way to do a documentary and some of it feels unnecessarily stretched out There is a weird combative section where former Naval officer and historian Coleman claims the Franklin expedition was slaughtered by natives The Charles Dickens part is the big discovery This is educational about a little known aspect of the famous historical event