The Torrent

Its 1922 in the Quebec countryside and Claudine Perreault has big plans for her son François Hell enter the priesthood so that God will forgive her for bearing a child out of wedlock But 17yearold François is dead set against joining the seminary Enraged Claudine strikes him so violently he goes deaf After his mothers death François begins a different kind of relationship with a woman when he buys the wild and aloof young Amica from an Innu peddler