A writer, Kamouraska is based on a real nineteenth-century love-triangle in rural Québec. It paints a poetic and terrifying tableau of the life of Elisabeth d'Aulnières: her marriage to Antoine Tassy, squire of Kamouraska; his violent murder; and her passion for George Nelson, an American doctor. Passionate and evocative, Kamouraska is the timeless story of one woman's destructive commitment to an ideal love.
A widow must cope with her late husband's associates, crooked Japanese businessmen who want her shares of a rich Northern Quebec land and a Jewish con man who wants to get a hand of her mysterious synthetic fur coat.
Linda leaves the modest family home and decides to go off and make a life for herself. She finds a job as a secretary for a married man who woos her, snubs a libertine seducer and finally finds love with Frédéric, a young and handsome millionaire racing driver in his spare time. Alas, the man she tenderly loves ends up marrying another.
