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.
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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
Alain Gabriel
Surveillant
David Noël
Jeune homme du dortoir
Mario Genest
Maquignon
Pierre Bédard
Homme violent
Manon Payeur
Femme protectrice
Ludovic Martineau
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