For over three decades, aging hippies, artists, New-Age alternative types, surfers, social misfits, and a family with ten children called Sombrio Beach home. On the picturesque shores of Vancouver Island's southwest coast, they built shacks out of driftwood and lived on what they gathered from the forest and the sea. Most just wanted to be left alone and follow their own idiosyncratic path in the sun and surf, but when the government determined that the beach fell within the perimeter of Juan de Fuca Provincial Park, it was time for them to go. Sombrio reveals the squatters' personal stories and convictions as they come to terms with their impending eviction.

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