Michela struggles on the choppy lake, while Brendan and Caleb continue to take on water, as they make way to a new camp where Medicine Woman Pauline brings knowledge for their bodies and insights for spiritual awakening. SENSITIVE - PREVIEWING RECOMMENDED.

Merchants of the Wild is a vivid reconnection to the land as six Indigenous women and men relive what survival was like on a fur trade expedition across the length and breadth of Northern Cree and Ojibway territories. Travelling in birch bark canoes, the brave group are taught by Elders and Knowledge Keepers, learning to make tools and use skills passed on orally through generations. These teachings are essential to their survival, as they take to the land with no modern technology on a 25-day voyage that will leave them forever changed.