
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.

as François

as Amica / Claudine

as Dominique

as François

as Peddler

as Clochard

as Headmaster

as Vieil instituteur

as Jeune instituteur

as Surveillant

as Jeune homme du dortoir

as Maquignon

as Homme violent

as Femme protectrice

as Nouveau-né

as Nouveau-né

as Femme hostile

as Femme hostile

as Villageois

as Villageois

as Religisieuse

as Religisieuse

as Religisieuse