She went to cook for white men. She became the sole survivor.
Stranded on an arctic island with a dying man in 1921, an Alaskan seamstress must overcome her fears of the wilderness and find the strength to survive if she ever hopes to return home to her son. Inspired by the true story of Ada Blackjack.
Direction
Winn's visual storytelling says more than dialogue ever could.
Cinematography
Bleak polar beauty that clings to your bones.
Writing
Economical script trusts the viewer to fill the silence.
Director
Dane Winn
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The real Ada Blackjack taught herself to shoot, trap, and build shelter from scratch—skills no man on the expedition bothered learning. She was paid less than the hired hands who abandoned her.
The 1921 Wrangel Island expedition was a vanity project by explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson; he sent five people with six months of supplies and no survival training, then promoted their story while erasing Ada's central role.
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