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At the age of 14 Mouchette is witness to her mother's deterioration to an illness doomed to kill her. Her father and brother are bootleggers and don't concern themselves with the mother's health, leaving her needs to Mouchette. At school, she's picked on by the teachers and finds herself ostracized from her classmates, partly by choice. She's very poor, and she takes revenge on the other better off girls by hiding in a field and throwing dirt at them and their belongings. She works after school in a café, but her father takes her earnings, and only through the kindness of a stranger does she get to ride the bumper cars. Once there, she flirts with a boy who keeps running into her, but when she gets the chance to talk with him, her father spots and slaps her. After going through the woods, she runs into the poacher Arsene, who encourages her on how to lie to her family, to lie for him, and then he takes advantage of her. And on returning home, she finds her mother is in her death throes. Mouchette tries to comfort her, but little is of comfort to either.

French dialogues, English subtitling