First Quebec adaptation of the masterful work of Louis Hémon. “Here I am, for the most part, reassured. The scenario knows how to be both inventive and faithful to the spirit of the novel. (...) A series of beautiful illustrations which comes to be added to the iconography of a great novel perhaps, in the end, unsuitable. (Francine Laurendeau, 1983) We are in Péribonka at the beginning of the century. Maria Chapdelaine is promised in marriage to Eutrope Gagnon, but her heart prefers Francois Paradis, the adventurer. Maria also has a third suitor, Lorenzo Surprenant, who hesitates to return home after knowing Maria. During the winter, Francois dies in the forest. Later, Maria resigns herself and finally agrees to marry her betrothed, Eutrope.