Some good friends told us about this 2003 movie, based on a Farley Mowat novel, after we came back from a 2019 trip to Alaska. We finally got around to seeing it, and it was well worth it.
The story takes place in 1952, in the Canadian Northwest Territories, where an arrogant white bush pilot and war veteran on a side trip to a tiny remote native village is persuaded to take a very sick young native woman to the nearest city hospital.
Unfortunately, the engine fails on the way, and the two of them end up crash-landing in a barren wilderness, where the pilot tries to take charge to figure out how to rescue them. What he doesn't realize (until he does) is that his ailing passenger is far better equipped for survival, with just the few primitive tools she carries in her kit, than he could ever be in that hostile, cold natural environment.
Watching the process of how she copes in the wild, and they gradually learn to work together, is fascinating, emotionally stirring and wonderfully told. Highly recommended.
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