Watch Maria Isabel

Maria Isabel (Genevieve Bujold) travels far away from her home, leaving all her childhood memories and her beloved mother behind. She finds a new life in a new city where she plans to permanently settle down. After many years Isabel receives the most disheartening news from home, her beloved mother is seriously ill. Isabel is shocked she remains sad and depressed for a very long time. Each and every little moment which she had spent with her mother became fresh.

Isabel finally decides to pay her sick mother a visit at the family’s farmhouse situated on the Gaspe Peninsula. She is unaware of the fact that her mother took her last breath even before seeing her daughter. Upon arrival at the Gaspe Peninsula Isabel finds out that her mother is no more. She feels utterly helpless and distressed as she missed the last chance to bid her sick mother a final goodbye.

The farm is looked after by her uncle Matthew, who has grown old now. Hence, he requests Isabel to stay back and help him out with the farm. Isabel unwillingly agrees and stays back at the Gaspe Peninsula to help her aged uncle with the farm work. But, Isabel cannot resist the past memories, the secrets, the mysteries, and keeps on haunting her. Firstly she feels the absence of her mother so much that it becomes impossible to live in that house. Secondly, the past begins to torture her, the obscure death of her grandfather, who is believed to have died in an accident, the sudden and shocking death of her father and brother who are believed to have drowned at the sea and died torments her and she is gripped by an uncanny feeling. She can very well sense that something is very wrong with the past incidences and also with the house itself.