Far North is an independently produced film by director Asif Kapadia, based on a short story by Sara Maitland.
The film opens up with a voiceover of a woman named Saiva telling the listener that a shaman said she was cursed at birth and would bring harm to anyone she cared for.
While she and a young woman named Anja are camping in a subarctic region of Siberia, in desperation, she takes one of her sled dogs and after calming it, slits its throat.
Fearing the worst, Saiva ventures out with Anja into the far north to the arctic tundra, passing abandoned telephone wire trees and to the area where she believes no one would ever find them.
Going back to the present, Saiva and Anja live a harsh brutal life in the tundra hunting animals for their survival.
One day while hunting alone, Saiva encounters a badly wounded man nearly frozen and starved to death.
After a successful seal hunt, Loki tells Saiva in their yurt that he was an escapee from soldiers that came to clear out the tundra, and that if they find him they will shoot him.
Another flashback scene shows Saiva finding all of her tribe dead, except for the man that she fell in love with, who is tied up.
As tension builds up Saiva's mind gets more and more worked up with depression of her daughter's leave; even when Anja asks her to come with them she is speechless.