Her name is Tekahentahkhwa, but everyone calls her Beans. Full of confidence, the twelve-year-old Mohawk girl is pursuing her dream of getting accepted into the renowned Queen Heights Academy. Yet with the outbreak of the Oka crisis in Quebec, Canada in the summer of 1990, her world is turned upside down. The media is filled with reports of the Mohawk people‘s fight for their rights, their peaceful protests answered with racial violence.
(Berlin Film Festival)