Walls of Memory

Rétrospective de l'histoire du Séminaire de Québec et hommage à sa survivance à l'occasion du troisième centenaire de sa fondation. De multiples prises de vues font voir le séminaire tel qu'il est aujourd'hui et tel qu'il fut au cours des siècles écoulés.

A story of the passion between a nun and God, her "divine spouse," Jean-Daniel Lafond's film paints an astonishing portrait of Marie de l'Incarnation, a mid-seventeenth-century mystic who abandoned her son and left France to build a convent in Canada, where she became the first female writer in New France. A religious adventure story, the film shows actress Marie Tifo seeking to inhabit this unusual role. Using a script by Jean-Daniel Lafond, she tackles the nun's incandescent writing and her candid letters to her son. The documentary fuses actress and role, past and present and takes us on a truly extraordinary historical and artistic journey.

A privileged view of the convent life of Les Servantes de Jésus-Marie at Hull, Québec, an order founded in 1894 in the diocese of Ottawa. The focus of the film is on Micheline Robert who, at a time when her friends talked of marriage, turned her back on the world for a life of obedience, chastity and poverty. The film follows her progress until she takes her final vows.