Marie Heurtin plot
This story is inspired by true events that took place in France in the late nineteenth century. Marie Heurtin was born deaf and blind and is now 14 years old. She is unable to communicate with the rest of the world. Her father, a humble craftsman, cannot bring herself to put her in an institution. Desperate, he goes to the Larnay Institute, near Poitiers, where sisters care for young deaf girls. Despite the Mother Superior's skepticism, a young nun, Sister Marguerite, will concern herself with the "little wild animal" that is Marie and do everything to bring her out of the darkness...