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.
Anne Hébert
Writer
Simon Lavoie
Director

Victor Andres Trelles Turgeon
François

Laurence Leboeuf
Amica / Claudine

Dominique Quesnel
Dominique

Anthony Therrien
François
Marco Bacon
Peddler
Roger Blay
Clochard

Normand Canac-Marquis
Headmaster

Aubert Pallascio
Vieil instituteur

Martin Desgagné
Jeune instituteur