A Survivor's Tale

Overview

1542, the year of Jacques Cartier's second mission to Canada. Pregnant by a man other than her future husband, the expedition's commander, the young Marguerite de la Rocque is abandoned on a deserted island off the coast of Newfoundland with the man who raped her and his maid. She will remain there for two years, surviving hunger, cold, despair, and madness.

Cast

Salomé Dewaels

Marguerite de la Rocque

Louis Peres

Thomas d'Artois

Candice Bouchet

Damienne Latour

Alexandra Lamy

Marguerite de Navarre

Patrick Descamps

Jean-François de Roberval

Alexandre Gavras

Le Roi François 1er

Eddy Frogeais

Cardinal 2

Corentin Lobet

Le Second