MAP OF THE HUMAN HEART

Filmed on location in Montreal, London and the Arctic, Map Of The Human Heart is an epic love story. The story unfolds in flashbacks starting in 1965 as an old Inuit Eskimo tells an American mapmaker his life story. Back in 1931, Walter Russell, a dashing Brit map maker, lands on the ice near the village. He befriends Avik, a cheerful young Inuit boy suffering from TB. Russell takes Avik with him to Montreal and places him in a hospital. There he meets a half French-Canadian, half Indian girl called Albertine. Ten years later Russell returns to the Arctic and meets Avik again. Hearing that Albertine is in Europe, Avik enlists in the Canadian air force, but by the time they meet in England , Albertine is involved with Russell. Despite this, the two make love atop a barrage balloon being raised above an ancient British landmark, the white horse at Uffington.
The film concludes in the 1960s with Avik’s long lost daughter searching for her Inuit father.