Sudbury, Ontario, is home to one of Canada’s largest, and most unique attractions — the Big Nickel. Measuring 30 feet in diameter, and weighing 13,000 kilograms (14.33 tons), the massive landmark is exactly what it sounds like — a huge replica of the 1951 Canadian nickel. It’s a distinct feature in the otherwise indistinct northern Ontario town, one that has endured the harsh Canadian climate’s wear and tear thanks to an inner steel core wrapped by a stainless steel outer core. Though deceptively slight in frame, Honey Bee (Julia Sarah Stone) possesses a similarly flinty and impenetrable fortitude at the center of filmmaker Rama Rau’s feature bearing her name. The Canadian drama traverses the tough territory of sex trafficking but, along the way, deftly navigates around the clichés to deliver an authentically lived-in and hard-won tale of survival.

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