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Chicoutimi, 1945
Seventeen-year-old Jeanne-Mance Thibeault is studying at the Bon-Pasteur Normal School, hoping to earn her teaching certificate. But a surprise summons to the superior’s office upends her plans: her father has suffered a severe stroke. Rushed home, she soon finds a weakened man and a struggling cheese factory that her mother is barely keeping afloat.
Amidst the chaos, Jeanne-Mance is also grappling with an intimate struggle she dares not name: her attraction to Isabelle, her classmate. A forbidden love that deepens her guilt and doubts every day. Luckily, she finds comfort in André, a young soldier freshly returned home.
When tragedy strikes again, Jeanne-Mance and her family face the covetousness of malicious individuals. Bending under the weight of her responsibilities and the impulses of her heart, the cheesemaker’s daughter will have to choose between conforming or asserting herself in a society that condemns difference…
