This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northern Quebec region. Although the production contains some fictional elements, it vividly shows how its resourceful subjects survive in such a harsh climate, revealing how they construct their igloo homes and find food by hunting and fishing. The film also captures the beautiful, if unforgiving, frozen landscape of the Great White North, far removed from conventional civilization.

John, an ambitious but undisciplined New York City office worker, meets and marries Mary. They start a family, struggle to cope with marital stress, financial setbacks, and tragedy, all while lost amid the anonymous, pitiless throngs of the big city.

A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling inventiveness.

乱军冲入村庄，少女芸姑为照料瘫痪的祖母，执意不肯逃离。危急时刻，芸姑表哥仲贤赶到，帮助他们向村外奔去。混乱中祖母被踏死。乱军首领金志满正欲非礼芸姑，白猿老人出现，就走了芸姑娘。芸姑拜白猿为师，一心复仇。三年后，金志满淫心不改，又看上了谢家的女儿琼儿。他强行占有了琼儿，还将谢父故意定为死罪。此时白猿老人和芸姑赶来。在谢父行刑之日，芸姑出现，救出谢父和琼儿，杀死了万恶的金志满。