The nonprofit group Friends of Mukai will bring Vancouver, B.C. filmmaker Pia Massie to the island to show and discuss her documentary “Just Beyond Hope” at 7 p.m. Saturday at Spoke. The film is free and the first of a series sponsored by Friends of Mukai.

“Just Beyond Hope” portrays life in the Japanese internment camps set up by the Canadian and American governments during World War II. Massie weaves together the stories of three very different women: Mine Okubo, a Japanese artist interned at a camp in California; Margaret Sage, a Canadian woman who worked at Tashme, the camp located just beyond Hope, B.C., and the renowned photographer Dorothea Lange, who took hundreds of photographs documenting the internment camps.

When Massie began working on the film, she was surprised to learn that even after more than 60 years, survivors were reluctant to speak about their experiences.

In a statement, she wrote, “For those who were interned, I hope this work brings them some peace, acknowledgement that there is nothing to be ashamed of and finally, that their grandchildren need to know their stories, so that history cannot repeat itself. And for those who know little about this time in history, I hope that ‘Just Beyond Hope’ shows the complex and still unresolved hurts of racism and war.”