Mouchette

At fourteen, Mouchette already knows the bitter side of life: her father is an alcoholic who beats her to death and her mother is a distant woman; her classmates laugh at her, she drives her teacher crazy, and her villagers hate and fear her in equal measure. To the misery and brutality that surround her, the surly and indomitable Mouchette opposes a fierce, adamantine pride, and the opacity of an unfathomable soul enclosed in a circle of silence. In a suffocating universe, where all true communication seems impossible, Mouchette has conquered her little moments of freedom and rebellion, always linked, however, to an irreducible loneliness. One stormy night, lost in the woods where she tries to shelter from the downpour, Mouchette she will meet the young Arsène, a poacher, the only person whom the girl admires and who awakens in her a feeling as tender as it is unspeakable. But what happens when the one who represents everything beautiful and valuable to the girl inflicts on her the deepest and most painful wound of her existence?