Although it goes on too long, and sometimes falters towards the end, there are moments in this epic love story that are as good as anything the cinema had produced for some time. If you're looking for the unusual, you'll certainly find it here. A young Arctic boy, half-Eskimo, half-white, is befriended in 1931 by a young mapper/surveyor (Patrick Bergin) who, seeing the boy is suffering from tuberculosis, takes him to a sanatarium in the city. Here he becomes friends with another 'outcast', a half-white, half-Cree Indian girl. The close nature of their relationship is frowned on by the nuns there, who split them up. Years later the boy (now Jason Scott Lee) runs into Bergin again, and asks him to help find the girl. Later still, serving with other Canadians in the RAF, he meets her (Anne Parillaud) again, only to find she is romantically involved with Bergin himself... Subsequent developments don't entirely convince, but scenes of children's friendship and, later, the wartime bombing of Dresden, are wonderfully well staged.

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