Premier long métrage d'une jeune cinéaste de talent. La belle apparence sort des sentiers battus et présente une problématique d'ordre universel, à savoir le cheminement psychologique d'une femme, sa prise de conscience ainsi que la situation des exclus dans notre société.

A young boy learns the rituals of what his father and his friends perceive as manhood on a weekend hunting trip.

The wife of photographer J.A. Martin decides to go with him in his tour of the hard Canadian countryside at the turn of the century. She hopes the intimacy will revive their marriage.