A governess, a wolf, and the arranged marriage from hell — colonialism bites back.
A British widower in the 1880s Pacific Northwest hires a Native American governess, educated in a Christian mission school, to teach his two daughters. While preparing the eldest for an arranged marriage, a force within her begins to awaken, threatening everything she has been taught.
Direction
Mesén's debut promises precise, unsettling atmosphere
Acting
Contois carries colonial trauma with terrifying stillness
Cinematography
Pacific Northwest as suffocating, beautiful prison
Director
Nathalie Álvarez Mesén
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The title references Latin American folklore Mesén grew up with — the 'wolf' as ancestral power, not European monster.
Mesén specifically cast Contois, a Cree-Métis actor with personal mission school family history, grounding the horror in lived generational memory.
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