Little Bird

Drama Series / 1 Season

Produced in Canada

In 1968, five-year-old Bezhig Little Bird was forcibly removed from Long Pine Reserve and adopted into a Jewish family in Montreal, and renamed Esther Rosenblum. Eighteen years later, she embarks on a journey to unravel her history. Through this epic journey of connection and self-discovery, Bezhig Little Bird begins to find her lost family and put the pieces of her fragmented past back together.

50m 36s / TV-14

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Love is all Around

S1 E1 / 44m 7s / TV-14

1968: On a summer day on the Long Pine Reserve in Saskatchewan, Bezhig Little Bird, her sister and brother are ripped away from their mother by police and child welfare agents to be put up for adoption. Now, 18 years later, Bezhig, who was renamed Esther Rosenblum by her adoptive family, is living as a Jewish woman in Montreal who doesn’t quite feel a sense of belonging in her comfortable life.

So Put Together

S1 E2 / 50m 36s / TV-14

Esther finds her adoption papers, and a newspaper clipping that evoke fuzzy memories of her young life on the Long Pine Reserve, before she was adopted. She is determined to learn more, so she uproots her life, sacrificing everything, in search of her family and who she is.

The Land That Takes You

S1 E3 / 43m 31s / TV-14

Patti Little Bird is desperate to get her kids back, but she doesn’t know where they have been taken. Eighteen years later, Bezhig/Esther, who has made her way back to the prairies, is desperate to find her family. Both women are lost, tangled in the exact same place, decades apart.

Burning Down The House

S1 E4 / 50m 20s / TV-14

Esther finds members of her family who help her put together the pieces of the past. She returns home to Montreal to confront Golda, her adoptive mother about the revelations she’s uncovered that shine a new light on their life and change the way they can look at the past.

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I Want My Mom

S1 E5 / 47m 21s / TV-14

Esther returns to the prairies and continues her pursuit of uncovering her past. Reconnecting the severed ties of a broken family is not easy. When tragedy strikes, Esther realizes that she needs her mother, Golda, more than anything.

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Bineshi Kwe

S1 E6 / 45m 30s / TV-14

After much love and sorrow, the Little Bird family comes together to mourn death and celebrate life. Esther and Golda are both changed from this journey of self-discovery, but it has strengthened their bond as mother and daughter and instilled a new sense of identity in Esther. The journey has been onerous, but Esther has finally found what she’s been looking for.

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