A Roman Catholic teenage boy in Glace Bay, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia during the 1930s faces various growing-up problems: Should he become a priest? What should he do about the murder he witnessed, committed by a local cop and upstanding parishioner? And how far should he go with his girlfriend, who happens to be the murderer's daughter?

Liv Ullmann
Jenny Campbell

Kiefer Sutherland
Donald Campbell

Peter Donat
Will Campbell

Alan Scarfe
Sergeant Tom Coldwell

Mathieu Carrière
Father Chaisson

Chris Wiggins
Chief Charlie McInnes
Thomas Peacocke
Father McKinnon

Isabelle Mejias
Mary McNeil
Jane McKinnon
Dianna Coldwell
Leah Pinsent
Saxon Coldwell
Peter Spence

Josephine Chaplin