Seeking a mean encounter with the territory of the Inuit, six paddlers plan to make the first recorded descent of a little-known river in northern Quebec. This mapping expedition, beset by adverse weather conditions and other unforeseeable situations, is also, for filmmaker François Léger-Savard, a reminder of his ancestry. The film reminds us that what we have come to think of as an “adventure” was here, for thousands of years, simply a way of life. Set against an imposing background of snow, tundra and white-water rapids, the documentary is a call to go beyond: out onto the land, and also inward into ourselves.
