Native Daughter: A Reckoning is a biographical portrait of author, musician, and spoken word artist CD Collins. Raised in Mt. Sterling, Kentucky in the foothills of Appalachia, at the age of 10, CD’s life went sideways. This is the story of what happened. Told through words and music, an investigation into how stories are created and told. Filmmaker Jean Donohue explores one woman’s lifelong journey for beauty, love, and survival. Her film examines how domination, abuse, and post-traumatic stress work through one’s life. Native Daughter relies solely on the words, music, and images of the artist. The film explores sexual identity, growing up queer and an artist in rural America, feminism, eco-feminism, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, the cutting-edge treatments for PTSD, and the profound and necessary endurance of the creative impulse.