The Breakwater

One morning in Toronto, Cathy Matsumoto’s father, Yasuo, calls to announce he intends to visit a dying cousin in Victoria.

Cathy’s never heard of this mysterious relative before, but she begrudgingly agrees to plan a cross-country family trip. It's only in British Columbia that Cathy learns this “cousin” is actually Yas’s younger brother, Stum, who’s been languishing in psychiatric care for decades, abandoned, ever since Yas committed him to Essondale Asylum before World War Two, inadverten...