Two sets of newcomers alight upon the New France settlement of Wobik at the start of Nat Geo's colonial-era drama Barkskins. "Here, you can be whoever you want," promises Rene Sel (Christian Cooke), a young-ish man who has signed up for three years of indentured servitude and what he hopes will be a wide-open future thereafter.
Sel's optimism falls on deaf ears. His slightly younger, much more sullen compatriot, Charles Duquet (James Bloor), shrinks at the very thought of arduous work.
Disembarking around the same time are two young women with a similar mismatch in expectations. Striving Melissande (Tallulah Haddon) and anxious Delphine (Lily Sullivan) temporarily move into a convent before they're to find husbands in the colony.
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