This is a story of one woman’s passion for wolves. Gudrun Pflueger is an ex-world champion cross-country skier and long distance runner. For the last six years, she has been studying wolves in the wild of Canada collecting field data, hair, droppings, and other evidence for use in scientific projects on wolves.
In this film, we follow as she goes in search of the coast wolves of British Columbia. Coast wolves are unique—they have more genetic variability than any other wolf, they live in the coastal forests and islands of the west coast of Canada, and they have a varied diet eating deer, otters, berries, scavenging mussels from the seashore and even catching fish in the rivers. Pflueger searches the woods and estuaries alone, walking through dense undergrowth hoping to catch a glimpse of her beloved wolves but well aware of the ever-present dangers of bears. The five-week expedition is set to become Pflueger’s most memorable encounter with wolves ever. It is an encounter she will forever cherish. Three weeks after the end of the expedition, she was diagnosed with a brain tumor. For Pflueger, her encounter with the wolves will provide her with hope for the future as she faces years of treatment for her cancer….