A woman alone.

On an uninhabited island in the Gulf of St.

Lawrence.

With a gun, diminishing supplies, and whatever she had learned about surviving in this environment.

The Woman Alone

The transition from having companions to being utterly alone represents a psychological threshold that most survival accounts treat as one of the most difficult.

Isolation — the complete absence of any human contact, of any voice or response or shared experience — is a form of deprivation that research has consistently shown to be profoundly damaging to human psychology, particularly when combined with other stresses like cold, hunger, and grief.

Marguerite had grief in abundance.