The news shook the English-speaking world. Celebrated English explorer Sir John Franklin and his crew perished in the Arctic during an ill-fated attempt to discover the Northwest Passage. More shocking, they had descended into madness and cannibalism. The report came from John Rae, a Scottish doctor working for the Hudson's Bay Company. But Rae's horrific news did not sit well with Franklin's widow, Lady Franklin, or with Charles Dickens. They waged a bitter campaign that would discredit Rae and mark the Inuit people with the horrifying label of murderous cannibals. Passage is a dramatized account of the incredible sacrifice, stunning distortion of the truth and single-minded obsession. It challenges the way we look at history.