Nell Shipman became famous as "God's Country Girl" in several adaptations of stories by James Oliver Curwood, after shifting the focus of Curwood's adventure tales from Wapi, the wild dog, to the heroine, Dolores LeBeau. Dolores is a double for Shipman herself, a lover of the forest who befriends untamed animals, a woman with the determination and will to control her own destiny. The film tells of a girl in the Canadian wilderness who fends off the advances of the murderous villain (disguised as a Northwest Mounted Policeman!), marries her true love, a writer, and moves to Montreal. Discontented with city life, she and her husband book passage on a ship to the Arctic-commandeered by none other than the villain. In the film's exciting climax, Dolores, aided by an Eskimo guide and the fierce and faithful Wapi (his name is Eskimo for Walrus), escapes with her injured husband onto the icy sea and across some 200 miles of wind-swept tundra. "Back to God's Country is the earliest surviving silent feature film shot (partially) in Canada, and one of 1919's biggest international film hits." (Tom Trusky)