The Timekeeper

It's 1964. Martin Bishop is eighteen. As his inheritance, his recently deceased father left him a good education and high moral principles, since the bank has seized the family farm.

Martin lands a job as a timekeeper on a construction site in the Northwest Territories. Deep in the woods, under the watchful eye of a tyrannical foreman, they're building a section of railway. Fifty-two miles in fifty-two days: a lucrative endeavour, as it turns out. In this remote, isolated camp from which there is no escape, corruption is a way of life. The workers, a bunch of rag-tag idiots and thieves selected precisely for their defects, dare not complain.

But Martin is upstanding, and won't buy into this. He asks questions and gets indignant at certain practices. What ill fate do the bosses have in store for this open, naive kid, this lamb among wolves? And what will become of Martin's lofty principles when threatened with reprisal?

Adapted from the novel, The Timekeeper, by Trevor Ferguson
Feature-Length Drama

Screenplay:
Louis Bélanger et Lorraine Dufour
Director: Louis Bélanger
Director of photography : Guy Dufaux
Production designer : André-Line Beauparlant
Costume designer : Sophie Lefèbvre
Sound : Marcel Chouinard
Producer: Réal Chabot, Dean English, Karen Powell
Executive Producer: Lorraine Dufour