Aurore

Aurore Gagnon, a nine-year-old girl in rural Quebec, finds her world shattered by her mother's sudden death. Her father remarries, bringing Marie-Anne Houde into their home, a woman whose presence chills rather than comforts. Under the guise of discipline, Marie-Anne subjects Aurore to a relentless regime of psychological torment and physical abuse. The father's passive complicity and the village's collective silence weave a suffocating tapestry of neglect, isolating the child in a private hell where her stepmother's whims are the only law.