A depressed teen and a 150-year-old ghost walk into a farmhouse... and actually fix each other.
Mathilde, a marginalized teenager, must move to the countryside with her family for a reason she would like to bury deep inside herself. Upon moving into her new home, she discovers that a ghost lives there. This ghost is that of Isabeau, a very friendly and sympathetic 19th-century woman who has modernized over her 150 years of wandering. These two characters will become friends and help each other through (one) life and (the other) death. While unraveling the injustices they have experienced, rooted in their respective eras, they develop deep bonds that will allow them to find peace.
Acting
Evelyne Brochu's ghost somehow makes 19th-century manners feel flirty and modern.
Writing
The parallel injustices hit harder than any jump scare could.
Production
That farmhouse is a character—decaying, isolated, quietly furious.
Director
Rafaël Ouellet
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rafaël Ouellet is part of a wave of Québécois filmmakers reimagining rural settings as sites of queer possibility rather than just isolation.
The 19th-century flashbacks deliberately echo contemporary youth mental health crises—Isabeau's 'hysteria' diagnosis mirrors how Mathilde's struggles are dismissed by her family.
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