Anonymous Sister

Anonymous Sister begins in the 1980s, as the close-knit Boyle family is introduced through home movies. As the years tick by, the youngest family member, Jamie, is drawn to the camera while her older sister, Jordan, embarks on what will become a prodigious figure-skating career.By late teenagehood, Jamie is documenting Jordan and their mom, Julie, as both descend into opioid addiction while battling chronic pain. Unbeknownst to her at the time, Jamie was capturing the reality of the opioid epidemic long before it was acknowledged or named, when it entered your home under the guise of healthcare, when those to whom we entrust our lives became the greatest threat to it.Thirteen years later finds both family members sober and Jordan newly pregnant with her first child. Jamie once again picks up the camera as her mom and sister face new hurdles in their hard-won sobriety. What she sees this time is not just a family, but an entire nation, in turmoil.