Restless River is a Canadian drama film, directed by Marie-Hélène Cousineau and Madeline Ivalu and released in 2019. An adaptation of Gabrielle Roy's 1970 novel Windflower , the film stars Malaya Qaunirq Chapman as Elsa, a young Inuk woman in Kuujjuaq, Quebec in the 1940s who becomes a mother after being raped by an American soldier stationed at the town's military base, but whose resilience and strength carry her through her difficult circumstances.