Le Goût de la farine

One fine day, some Quebec film-makers and intellectuals arrive on the Indian reservation at Saint-Augustin. In this community where the Indians, unable to live without outside aid, are acutely aware of their decline, Perrault found a spokeswoman in Marie-Noëche : the silent despair in the eyes of her fellow-Indians finds expression through her. This Indian village becomes a metaphor for the whole of Quebec, where it isn’t easy to be both white (the oppressor) and a Quebecer (the enslaved).