Desc: A Desert Between Us and Them: Directed by Zach Melnick, Anthony F. Grani. With Michael Chwastiak, Lawrene Denkers, Scott Paterson, Malita Vanderkruk. Abandoned by the British, occupied and plundered by the Americans - in the War of 1812 the people of Upper Canada's Western Frontier spend years living in a brutal war zone.