Directed by William Fruet • 1972 • Canada
Starring Carol Kane, Donald Pleasence, Doris Petrie

A harrowing family tragedy plays out with unflinching naturalism in this at once relentlessly raw and deeply compassionate tale of innocence lost, winner of the 1972 Canadian Film Award for Best Feature. After Jeannie Dougall (Carol Kane), a teenager growing up in a small town in 1940s Canada, is raped by her brother’s friend and ends up pregnant, her callous father (Donald Pleasence) devises a desperate scheme to save the family from scandal. Built around a touchingly vulnerable performance from Carol Kane, this stark domestic drama is unflinching in its look at the way those closest to us can inflict the greatest cruelty.