Through poems that move between the two languages, McIlwraith explores the beauty of the intersection between nãehiyawãewin, the Plains Cree language, and English, ḱayśãimowin. Written to honour her father's facility in nãehiyawãewin and her mother's beauty and generosity as an inheritor of Cree, Ojibwe, Scottish, and English, kiyḿ articulates a powerful yearning for family, history, peace, and love.