Ruth

Ruth is the story of a painful adolescence Ruth decides on a whim to leave her small village in the Bas SaintLaurent for the real world of the big city Montreal There she meets up with her brother JeanPaul Her many lovers range from onenight stands like Bernard to Yves and Robert who are briefly in her life Passionate anticonformist Ruth has to contend with her brothers ferocious jealousy he goes as far as attacking Robert his best friend Robert completely baffled by Ruths cynical recklessness finally pushes her away Ruth continues her struggle to find absolute love She clings passionately clumsily and shamelessly to those she loves and those she doesnt in frenzied desperation Continually disappointed and shut out by the real world she chooses a way out that is typically extreme