Overview

It’s 1922 in the Quebec countryside, and Claudine Perreault has big plans for her son, François. He’ll enter the priesthood so that God will forgive her for bearing a child out of wedlock. But 17-year-old François is dead set against joining the seminary. Enraged, Claudine strikes him so violently he goes deaf. After his mother’s death, François begins a different kind of relationship with a woman when he buys the wild and aloof young Amica from an Innu peddler.

Genres

Cast

Victor Andres Trelles Turgeon

François

Laurence Leboeuf

Amica / Claudine

Dominique Quesnel

Dominique

Anthony Therrien

François

Normand Canac-Marquis

Headmaster

Aubert Pallascio

Vieil instituteur

Martin Desgagné

Jeune instituteur

David Noël

Jeune homme du dortoir

Micheline Poitras

Religisieuse

Johanne Loiselle

Religisieuse