After Friar tries unsuccessfully to seduce the comely Yvette, he wordlessly and suddenly abandons his work with Duddy. Duddy rebounds by starting a new movie distribution business and hires Virgil as a travelling projectionist. A few months later, Virgil, an epileptic (a fact known to Duddy when he gave Virgil the job), experiences a seizure while driving, crashes and is paralyzed from the waist down. Yvette, blaming Duddy for the accident, takes Virgil to Ste. Agathe, where she cares for him. Duddy is left to show the movies seven days a week while still trying to oversee movie production at the same time.