Blanche

7.0

1993•46m

Blanche is a miniseries with eleven 45-minute episodes, directed by Charles Binamé based on Le Cri de l'oie blanche by Arlette Cousture and broadcast from September 23 to December 2, 1993 on Radio-Canada Television1,. This is the sequel to Les Filles de Caleb.

Seasons

11 Episodes • Premiered 1993

Blanche, daughter of Emilie Bordeleau, leaves her small French-Canadian town and large family to go and live with her married sister and study medicine in Montreal, Canada. As it is the early 1930's, women are not allowed to become doctors and practice medicine. Blanche completes her nursing studies, then accepts a position in the far off Abitibi region in northern Quebec where a lack of doctors allows her the freedom to treat patients as any real doctor would. Here she goes through the heart ache of dealing with the stubborn attitudes of the chauvinistic pioneers. She comes head to head with a crooked logging boss and falls in love.

1. Episode 1

Émilie returned to live in Saint-Tite with her children. For his part, Ovila has settled in Abitibi and hardly gives any news. Blanche, who is ten years old, suffers from the separation of her parents and she fervently hopes that her father will return one day. Poverty forces Emilie to place Blanche in the convent with the status of an orphan.