"This feel real to you?" Sabrina Sohal asks her police academy classmate on the day of their graduation. 

Actor Supinder Wraich is dressed in her character Sabrina's formal uniform as the cadet becomes a rookie in the Canadian Federal Police Corps in Surrey, B.C. She is the third generation — and first woman — from her Sikh Canadian family to join the force. 

"Only way I got through was picturing this," says Sabrina, the lead character …