This is a french Canadian classic! It tells the story of Emilie Bordeleau at the end of the 19th century! How she becomes a teacher then marries and has children. Its her life with all its trials and tribulations. She never manages to find peace and complete happiness but that makes the show that much more interesting. I have to say if you like history and want to see how people in french Canada lived a hundred years ago this is the series for you! Yes it is a soap but its still great television. Like I said its a classic, people closed there stores to watch the show when in came on, on Thursday evenings in 1990. Its our history, how we were, how we lived, with the problems of the times! ITS SIMPLY GREAT.