The Last Witch

Geneva, 1620.
At the age of eighteen, Michée Chauderon leaves her native Haute-Savoie for Geneva, where she hopes to find work. There she meets Pia, a young widow, whose daughter she cares for thanks to her knowledge of medicinal plants passed down by her mother. Years later, with her reputation as a healer well established, Michée witnesses the execution of a woman accused of poisoning and convicted of witchcraft. Deeply shaken, she begins to fear that her gift will put her in danger. Pia urges her to be discreet and to settle down by getting married.
Ten years later, Michée is preparing to marry Jean, the father of her unborn child, when he dies after falling from his horse. Fearing the stigma of remaining single, the young woman accepts Louis’s proposal to marry her and recognize the child as his own, but before they have time to formalize their situation, they are denounced by their employer and forced to leave town.
Four years later, Michée returned to Geneva alone: her husband had died of fever and her daughter had died in her sleep. Because she could not refuse to help the sick, rumors spread that she was a witch. Arrested and tortured for making a pact with the devil, Michée Chauderon was the last woman in Geneva to be burned at the stake for witchcraft.