Little Aurore's Tragedy

A little girl wittness the death of her mother- expressly killed through negligence by the woman supposedly nursing the invalid mother back to health. The coniving nurse in turn marries the child's father thereby taking the dead woman's place and becoming the little girl's stepmother. After unwisely revealing to the stepmother that she knows the reason for her mother's death; Arore is abused by her stepmother who hopes that in torturing the child she can keep her silent. The father, who is absent during the day farming the land, closes his eyes or refuses to believe his new wife is abusive when confronted by the sight of his miserable burnt and beaten child.

Cast

Yvonne Laflamme

as Aurore

Lucie Mitchell

as Marie-Louise

Paul Desmarteaux

as Théodore

Roch Poulin

as Maurice

Janette Bertrand

as Catherine

Jean Lajeunesse

as Abraham

J. Léo Gagnon

as Le médecin

Marc Forrez

as Le curé

Therese McKinnon

as Delphine Andois

Nana de Varennes

as Melvina

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