Nicole Blackburn

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.

The story of a wild night of Carnival during which Bertrand tries to reconnects with his wife, whom he left more than a year ago. But, the presence of a girlfriend, a seducer and the Carnival, will throw a wrench in his plans...