Haunted by the disappearance of her sister, Denise desperately seeks to find answers to Michelle's disappearance. As she and her husband Daniel grapple with the loss, Denise is visited by Michelle in a series of visions that will help her to find the answers she is looking for.

I wrote The Hours That Remain as my response to the plight of missing Aboriginal women in this country. In 2008 I was in Sioux Lookout Ontario at a production of The Triple Truth by the Turtle Gals Ensemble. At the post show talkback they answered a question about the Highway of Tears, which is a stretch of highway up in Northern British Columbia where a great number of Aboriginal women have gone missing. It was quite upsetting. I watch the news almost every night, and I try to pick up a newspaper when I can, but I couldn’t understand why I had never heard of this tragedy before now. Why wasn’t this front-page news everyday? I didn’t know what to do, so I did what I had never done before: I started to write. A year and a half later this play emerged. I can’t even begin to imagine what the families of people gone missing must go through not knowing what has happened to their loved ones. I picked the title The Hours That Remain to honour that sentiment. Often for those who are left behind life is just the hours that remain. My intention with this play is to stimulate conversation, raise awareness, and with my sincerest of hopes, honour the woman we have lost. Meegwetch. Chi Meegwetch.

- Keith Barker