Since the portals of the Elsa silver mine closed in 1989, the population of Keno City, Yukon, a community that housed many of Elsa’s miners and workers, dwindled to a mere twenty inhabitants. But unlike many other frontier mining towns, this tiny end-of-the-road settlement defied complete abandonment. While searching for Keno’s reason for being, this film explores the dynamics of frontier lifestyle, cultural preservation and attachment to place, drawing a portrait of quasi-ghost town and the community that is responsible for its revival. Through detailed and storied observations, captured in both video and film footage, Keno City of Silver also connects the collapse of the silver mining industry with filmography, mirroring the history of Keno with that of silver-based photography and the arrival of the digital age.