[3] It was filmed on location in Denali National Park, Juneau, Anchorage, Palmer, Whittier, Matanuska Glacier, and on the state ferry boat Kennicott run by the Alaska Marine Highway System.

The film was produced by Green, with Julie Christeas, Schuyler Weiss and Joseph Stephans, and executive-produced by Christine Vachon.

Mackenzie (Ella Purnell), a 14-year-old girl, is sent to stay with her uncle (Brian Geraghty) in Juneau, Alaska, at the request of her drug addicted mother[6] following her hospitalization and the unavailability of a guardian, her father having passed away a year prior.

[7] Her mother informs her daughter of her plan to rent an apartment in Seattle (around their old neighbourhood) and receive outpatient care but seeks time to work things out.

However, after being molested by her uncle whom she had been entrusted to, she runs away and ends up finding healing in a journey across the state of Alaska, following an older widowed backpacker (Bruce Greenwood) to eventually reach her final destination, Seattle.