A writer Kamouraska is based on a real nineteenth-century love-triangle in rural Québec. It paints a poetic and terrifying tableau of the life of Elisabeth d'Aulnières: her marriage to Antoine Tassy squire of Kamouraska; his violent murder; and her passion for George Nelson an American doctor. Passionate and evocative Kamouraska is the timeless story of one woman's destructive commitment to an ideal love.