Sophie Deraspe’s modern-day re-imagining of the classic Greek drama, casts Antigone (Nahéma Ricci), as a brilliant 17 year-old student. Antigone’s parents died in their homeland conflict and she, her grandmother and 3 siblings emigrated to Montreal to build a new life. All that shatters after police shoot her brother Étéocle (Hakim Brahimi), and threaten another brother with deportation. Antigone is a girl in crisis, yet exhibits unshakeable resolve in her fight to save her family.
Deraspe jolts viewers into comprehending the power imbalance between citizens and immigrants, and the hypocrisies of the justice system. Can her inspirational heroine transform Sophocle’s ancient tragedy into a contemporary triumph? Remarkably thought-provoking!