The Torrent (2012) on Netflix

Plot summary

In the Quebec countryside in 1922, Claudine Perreault has decided what her son's life will be. François, seventeen years old, is to enter the seminary and become a priest, a calling she believes will earn God's forgiveness for the child she bore outside marriage. François is set against the plan and refuses to go. Enraged at his refusal, his mother strikes him on the head, and the blow leaves him deaf. The boy who would not be made a priest now lives apart, in the countryside where his mother raised him, and finds it hard to reach the people around him.