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Canadian filmmaker Philip Hoffman examines two lives gone in unexpected directions in this documentary. After Hoffman moved into a farmhouse in Southern Ontario, he began studying the history of his new home and discovered pioneering Native Peoples activist Nahneebahweequa (aka Catherine Sutton) had once lived there before her death in 1865. But as Hoffman began looking into the facts of Nahneebahweequa's life, he learned that the truth behind her history was not quite what she had led people to believe. As Hoffman was digging into Nahneebahweequa's history, he found himself confronted with the present-day crises of George Lachlan Brown, a writer who was the biological father of Hoffman's stepdaughter. As Brown's health begins to fail him and he falls into poverty, he begin to slip into madness, with a series of telephone messages serving as chapters in a tale of a man losing his grip on sanity. All Fall Down was Philip Hoffman's first feature-length project, and an official selection at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival.