Brise glace (Broken Waters) (2023)

Ottawa, 1983. A young and empathetic psychiatrist, Dr. Marguerite Lafontaine, finds herself clashing with her male supervisors in the hospital psychiatric ward where she works. Their first choice is always to medicate the patients. Marguerite is more interested in the emerging psychotherapy treatments she was exposed to in school. When a new patient, Isabelle, arrives with a delusional disorder which led to serious crimes, Marguerite sees an opportunity: a patient caught up in an imaginary pregnancy and stories of child kidnappings is ripe for talk therapy. Despite the sneering and sabotage from senior doctors, Marguerite persists. But the constant attempts to shake her self-confidence are taking their toll... not to mention her unexpected pregnancy. Set forty years in the past, but still unfolding, BROKEN WATERS is a complex moral drama about distinctly female trauma and healing. BRISE GLACE/ BROKEN WATERS is Canada's first ever bilingual drama featuring female Franco-Ontarian characters.