On a farm just outside Vancouver, the largest serial murder investigation in Canadian history began in 2002, after more than 60 women were officially recognized as missing from the Vancouver area. In 2004, murder charges were laid against the farmer who owned the land. As DNA evidence from the farm accumulated, more charges were laid. The 23rd charge was for the murder of a woman named Dawn Crey. But Dawn Crey is more than just a number...

Highway 16, also known as the Yellowhead Highway, runs from the prairies to the Pacific Ocean in Northern British Columbia. Since the early nineties at least nine women have been killed or have disappeared along this stretch of road. That's the reason it has become known as The Highway of Tears.

The story of Daleen Kay Bosse, a young mother and university student who disappeared on her way to a conference in Saskatoon. Daleen's parents search for her, travelling back and forth across western Canada and wondering why it took so long for police to take the disappearances of aboriginal women seriously enough to investigate them properly.