Aurore (Laflamme) is 12 years old and lives with her sickly mother (McKinnon) and father (Desmarteaux) in a small village during the 1920s.

A widowed neighbour (Mitchell) appears concerned and helpful, but Aurore discovers she actually hastens her mother's death.

Her father marries the widow, and the child is forced to live with her cruel stepmother.

She is systematically beaten and tortured until the local doctor (Gagnon) intervenes, but he is too late, and Aurore succumbs to her abuse.

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