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In the mountain of the north of Montreal (in Canada), in the colonization period, Seraphin a greed man is mostly the only one to have some money between the inhabitants. He used it as an usurer to grab all the land of the poor people. Alexis who was in love with Donalda before she was forced to became Seraphin's wife, borrow him 200$ to help starting his farm. He's counting on a temporary government job to pay back the greed man but Seraphin will use his political position as a colonization's agent to make sure he won't get it.

Un bagnard en fuite revient dans son village natal pour y revoir sa fille qui le croit mort. Le curé intervient pour éviter un scandale qui rejaillirait sur la jeune fille à la veille de se marier. Tourné il y a 50 ans, ce film surprend par la maîtrise du langage cinématographique dont fait preuve Gury. Les mouvements d'appareils, les angles de prises de vues, les effets narratifs ou symboliques qui paraissent aujourd'hui certes faciles, tranchent pourtant agréablement avec la platitude générale des mises en scène de cette première épopée industrielle du cinéma québécois.

Story about a town where illegal activities are allowed to thrive, but a doctor and couple of colleagues try to help townspeople see that public health measures, especially those that might control syphilis, are necessary.