Ningiuq finds objects known to belong to the white foreigners beside the body. When Ningiuq and Maniq returned to the main camp, they find that everyone is dead, their bodies twisted in pain and covered with blisters. When the first snow comes, Ningiuq decides to return to the main camp with Maniq to see what happened to the others. Kutuguk dies, Ningiuq and Maniq bury her.

At the island, three of them are waiting for the return of hunter when cold autumn starts but nobody comes.

Ningiuq volunteers to take on this chore, and her grandson, Maniq follows her, as well as the old Kutuguk, which is Ningiuq's friend who is ill. She thinks that the surrounding is unstable, so she wants to think about her life.Īfter a good harvest of fishing, the families decide to dry what they caught on an isolated island, which are safe from dogs and other animals. Although everything seems goes well, Ningiuq, an old woman of strength and wisdom, cannot stop worrying. In summer, two isolated families meet each other again, the young people get married, the elder tell stories to the young, they are planning for the food that can help them spending over winter.

The story of the film happens in about 1840, some of the Inuit tribes still have never met any white people, but they hear about where they come from, what they want do and the reason. 'Their adaptation moves the setting from northeast Greenland to northwest Ungava (Nunavik) and from the 1960s to the 1840s, when explorers and whalers began to trade with local Inuit and transmitted contagious diseases.' The film was shot near Puvirnituq in Nunavik, northern Quebec. Setting is in a small Inuit community in the Nunavik region of northern Quebec in the 1840s, the film stars Madeline Ivalu as Ninioq, an Inuk elder isolated with her grandson Maniq (Paul-Dylan Ivalu) after most of their community perishes from smallpox transmitted by strange traders. It was the third film released by Igloolik Isuma Productions, an Inuit film studio best known for the film Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner, and is the first feature film to be made by Arnait Video Productions, a women's Inuit film collective. Directed by Marie-Hélène Cousineau and Madeline Ivalu, the film is an adaptation of the novel Før Morgendagen by Danish writer Jørn Riel. Before Tomorrow ( French: Le jour avant le lendemain) is a Canadian drama film, released in 2008.

Le Jour avant le lendemain by Jørn Riel