The House by the Canal - Synopsis

Edmée is sixteen. She has just lost her parents and must leave her bourgeois town world at Lille to go and live with her cousins that she doesn’t know, on a farm along a canal in Flanders.

Edmée discovers a tough life which is completely foreign to her.
She becomes conscience of her femininity and her capacity to seduce which she uses over her two cousins: a dangerous game which aggravates the boy’s impulses provoking uncontrolled violence and leads to a tragic spiral of events.