A Roman Catholic teenage boy in Glace Bay, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia during the 1930s faces various growing-up problems: Should he become a priest? What should he do about the murder he witnessed, committed by a local cop and upstanding parishioner? And how far should he go with his girlfriend, who happens to be the murderer's daughter?

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Cast

Liv Ullmann

Jenny Campbell

Kiefer Sutherland

Donald Campbell

Peter Donat

Will Campbell

Alan Scarfe

Sergeant Tom Coldwell

Mathieu Carrière

Father Chaisson

Chris Wiggins

Chief Charlie McInnes

Isabelle Mejias

Mary McNeil

Josephine Chaplin

Pauline Lafont