In the summer of 2023, a Toronto teenager leaves home with his first paycheck, planning nothing more dangerous than a game of basketball. As dawn turned to darkness, he is caught in a hail of gunfire on a North York street – an innocent victim of a retaliatory shooting he had no connection to. Shot through the head and left comatose, doctors give him almost no chance of survival.

Nekai Walks follows the extraordinary recovery of Nakai Foster, a young Black Canadian whose fight to live becomes a lens into the human cost of urban gun violence. Told through intimate verité footage, hospital moments, family testimony, and community voices, the film chronicles his journey from a ventilator and brain surgery to the painstaking, humbling process of relearning how to sit, speak, and ultimately stand.