La Terre

A naturalistic portrait of rural life in the Beauce, following seasonal labor and the daily work of smallholders. Detailed scenes of sowing, tending animals, and weather set the stage for interpersonal tensions that arise from attachment to land, inheritance struggles, sexual desire, and economic precariousness. Relationships between neighbors and within households shift from cooperation to rivalry, sometimes culminating in cruelty and violent consequences. Through unflinching depiction of bodies, soils, tools, and routines, the narrative shows how environment, custom, and biological impulses shape ambitions, resentments, and the moral compromises of lives lived close to the earth.