A Survivor's Tale

The fate of a woman forgotten by history

A Survivor's Tale — Plot

1542, the year of Jacques Cartier's second mission to Canada. Pregnant by a man other than her future husband, the expedition's commander, the young Marguerite de la Rocque is abandoned on a deserted island off the coast of Newfoundland with the man who raped her and his maid. She will remain there for two years, surviving hunger, cold, despair, and madness.

• Release date
• March 25, 2026
• Runtime
• 102 min
• Genres
• Drama, History
• Director
• Micha Wald

A Survivor's Tale — Cast

Salomé Dewaels Marguerite de la Rocque Louis Peres Thomas d'Artois Candice Bouchet Damienne Latour Alexandra Lamy Marguerite de Navarre Patrick Descamps Jean-François de Roberval Alexandre Gavras Le Roi François 1er Eddy Frogeais Cardinal 2 Corentin Lobet Le Second