A young Canadian woman of Ukrainian origin relates the story of her father's bringing his family to Canada to escape the poverty in Ukraine and flee the Austrian Empire. She also talks about the repression and persecution that Canadians of Ukrainian background faced during the First World War, as many were sent to internment camps.

In Lost Dreams, Kateryna Ewanchuck, a young Ukrainian in Manitoba, reflects on the oppression her people faced as immigrants to Canada. Having watched her father's dreams of owning a farm slip away due to discrimination and hard times, Kateryna takes on the fight for social justice, participating in the One Big Union and the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919.