Luis Canales

In 2017, five college students set out to escape the path of mother nature. When things took a turn, they had to seek shelter...and were never seen alive again.

Nine artists—dancers, musicians, and visual artists—in recovery from drug and alcohol addiction are transformed by creativity in their search for identity and freedom. Their stories reveal how art has been a ballast while confronting old addictive habits and finding a portal into the aliveness and spiritual connection of art-making from a unique San Francisco perspective.