Toronto-born filmmaker Karen Chapman undergoes a cultural transformation into a carnival masquerader at Toronto’s Caribana Parade. While this colourful journey unlocks her Afro and Indo-Caribbean heritage from Guyana, she still ponders the question “Can you call a place home if you have never been there?”
Live action footage intercut with animation speak eloquently of the experiences of Canadian-born BIPOC individuals who are delegated to a special zone of displacement by others whose ignorant assumptions lead them to categorize people based on their appearance.
