Le confessionnal

The year is 1952 and Alfred Hitchcock is shooting I Confess in Québec City. As film crews invade and take over the parish church, Rachel, who works in the presbitery, is going through a real-life drama of her own: she is only sixteen years old and pregnant. Filled with shame, she seeks salvation in the confessional and, trusting to the vow of silence, unburdens her soul to a young priest. 1989. Pierre Lamontagne has just returned to Quebec after three years in China to attend his father’s funeral. He meets up with Marc, his adopted brother, and Rachel’s illegitimate child. Feeling lost and adrift, Marc has begun to question is identity and is searching for his roots. The brothers embark on a quest to find Marc’s unknown father, a quest that will lead them to the locations of I Confess and the Quebec of the 1950s. Past and present converge in a complex web of clues.