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Before the Time Comes is a Canadian drama film, directed by Anne Claire Poirier and released in 1975. The film stars Luce Guilbeault as Hélène, a housewife and mother who is raising her three children largely on her own without much help from her itinerant sailor husband Gabriel ; when she becomes pregnant for a fourth time, she struggles both with her conscience and the opinions of her husband and her sister Monique as she considers whether or not to have an abortion.