- Ningiuksiak (Joanasie Salomonie), an Inuk who lives in the settlement of Cape Dorset, In the Canadian Northwest Territories, is on a hunt with his family. On his way back to Cape Dorset, Ningiuksiak's snowmobile breaks down. Since he does not have the money to fix it - and since he is tempted to try another kind of life - he decides to leave his family and fly to the town of Frobisher Bay to make some money. Ningiuksiak's cousin in Frobisher Bay, Ashoona (Mickey Turqtuq), a somewhat urbanized Inuk who makes his living as a construction worker or as a cab driver, has drifted away from hunting and the traditional way of life of the remote settlements. Ashoona takes Ningiuksiak in hand and helps him to get a job driving for the Nanook Taxi Company. Increasingly unhappy and bewildered, Ningiuksiak takes to spending his money on liquor and his time in seedy nightclubs. One night, half-heartedly trying to show that he is having a good time, he looks up and sees his wife. She has come to take him home to Cape Dorset.
- Ning (Joanassie Salomonie), is an Inuit hunter. When his snowmobile breaks down in tiny, remote Cape Dorset, Nunavut, he's forced to travel to Iqaluit, "the big city", to earn money for the repair, leaving his wife (Mukkituq, played by Kanayuk Salomonie) behind. With the help of his cousin Ashoona, (Mickey Tuqtuq), he gets a job as a taxi driver. Ning finds life in Iqaluit very much to his liking - there's a bar, a restaurant, and a friendly, attractive CBC radio announcer, Leona (Elisapee Davidee). But things begin to go wrong; his drinking leads to trouble on the job, his cousin Mickey gets fired, and Leona quickly loses interest once he lets slip that he is married. His decline is arrested when Mukkituq arrives unexpectedly in the Legion Bar and convinces him to return home to Cape Dorset, where he repairs his snowmobile and resumes his life.
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