Idea 2 - The Frigidness

This one's sort of like Into The Wild mixed with Stella Got Her Groove Back:

The world's third-ranked female Iditarod competitor is faced with a harrowing mid-race choice: either shoot her injured favorite dog Spirit and try to make up some time, or abandon the race, fashion a crude tail splint, and rush him to the nearest dog doctor over 8,000 miles away.

As she wrangles over the decision, we flash back to her childhood in Afghanistan and her first marriage to Noam Chomsky.

I feel like this one needs some sex, but I'm not sure it should be with Chomsky.