The first Quebec adaptation of Louis Hémon’s masterpiece. “I am, for the most part, reassured. The screenplay manages to be both inventive and faithful to the spirit of the novel. (...) A series of beautiful illustrations that adds to the iconography of a great novel that is, perhaps, ultimately unadaptable.” (Francine Laurendeau, 1983) We are in Péribonka at the turn of the century. Maria Chapdelaine is promised in marriage to Eutrope Gagnon, but her heart prefers François Paradis, the adventurer. Maria also has a third suitor, Lorenzo Surprenant, who hesitates to return home after having met Maria. During the winter, François dies in the forest. Later, Maria resigns herself and eventually agrees to marry her fiancé, Eutrope.