This meditative French-Canadian film tells the story of a young woman's search for the father she has never known. Marie Chapdelaine (Carole Laure) grew up in a remote area of Quebec without ever knowing her father, a lumberjack. She moves to Montreal, settles in there with a job as a topless dancer and begins her search for him. Eventually, with the help of his former mistress, they find the lumber camp he was working in, only to discover that he was killed in a labor dispute.

加拿大导演克劳德·朱特拉1971年作品，让·杜斯皮主演，获芝加哥电影节评委会奖，电影史上最出名的加拿大影片之一，导演以清新简洁的手法，讲述了一个男孩与叔叔之间的故事。