Jeromes Secret

In 1863 when a legless shipwrecked man washes up on the Acadian coast hes taken to the home of Jean the Corsican a burly and bitter former soldier and his childless young wife Julitte The man who is young handsome and welldressed remains mute as Julitte nurses him back to health Jean meanwhile who is inexplicably estranged from Julitte and an outsider to townspeople continues his hunt for pirate treasure rumored to be hidden in a cave by the sea The treasure is his ticket out of Acadia As loneliness and Eros draw Julitte and the mysterious Jérôme together somethings got to give