Lost Promises: Revisiting the Circumstances of My Sister's Death in a Religious Cult

Promises My Sister and I Made follows two deeply connected young sisters from Montreal who grew up in a secular home, but yearned for a sense of purpose, meaning and fulfilment beyond the material comforts their suburban life offered. Imbued with their parents' disillusioned idealism as members of leftist movements in 1950s Montreal, the sisters are drawn to spiritual paths that promise personal and collective transformation. With imaginations sparked by the freespirited ethos of the Summer...