Map of the Human Heart (1993)
In an Arctic village in 1931, British mapmaker Walter Russell selects 12-year-old Eskimo Avik as his guide. When the boy contracts tuberculosis, Walter flies him to a Montreal hospital, where Avik meets Albertine and is infatuated. A decade later, a grown Avik encounters Albertine again in London, where he's serving as a British combat pilot. Despite her relationship with Walter, she and Avik begin an affair. world war ii, inuit, arctic polar circle region, interracial romance, tuberculosis, snowmobile, 1940s, cartographer, 1930s