Between Salt and Sweet Water (French: Entre la mer et l'eau douce), also known as Drifting Upstream, is a 1967 Québécois film directed by Michel Brault, co-written by Brault, Gérald Godin, Marcel Dubé, Claude Jutra and Denys Arcand.
The film also features boxer Ronald Jones in a small role.
Jones was one of the subjects of Gilles Groulx's 1961 documentary Golden Gloves.
[1] Claude (Claude Gauthier) leaves his small town on the Côte-Nord to go to Montreal, where he works several odd jobs and eventually falls in love with Geneviève (Geneviève Bujold), a pretty waitress who works in a local diner.
One night he meets Geneviève backstage, only to learn she is now married, and realizes one can be as lonely in a small town as in a big city.