Limit Is the Sky (2016)

The film follows six millennials as they try to jump-start their adult lives in the only place on Earth where truck drivers could $250,000 a year. But when the bottom falls out of the oil market, each character finds him- or herself suddenly stranded at a precipice where once lay the path of their now disrupted plans. Their desires and drives drastically vary in magnitude: from building a fashion empire in the Philippines to living up to the conservative values of a Lebanese father; from sharing a history as a Sudanese war-child through rap to feeding the Canadian poor. While Max, Sable, Andrew, Patrick, KingDeng and Mucharata intensely try to catch the golden bird of fortune by its tail, destiny conspires against their plans. An anti-pipeline movement grows in Canada and the US; celebrities bash the global environmental impact of the oil sands; and finally, the world's oil prices experience a phenomenal collapse. Seemingly out of the blue, Fort McMurray is turned upside down by the dwindling oil industry. And yet this group are still only in their twenties or early thirties, and their experiences in the oil sands are just early chapters in lives they are determined to build on their own terms. Limit Is the Sky approaches global issues-economic woes, environmental exploitation, the difficulties faced by newly arrived immigrants and refugees-from a uniquely human perspective. This sextet of characters, and the wildly varying dozens who surround them, find in the oil sands a testing ground for both their strengths and weaknesses, and the crucible within which their future selves will be forged.