Hero or villain? Traitor or patriot? Free thinker or dupe? Adeelard Dobout was Premier of Quebec from 1939-1944, and during his term in office he helped lay the groundwork for the Quiet Revolution of the 1950's and 1960's: instituting compulsory education, giving women the vote, creating Hydro-Quebec and trying to free the province from domination by the clergy. But instead of being celebrated, he was written out of the history books. Why? While most Quebec nationalists saw participation in the Second World War as subjugation to the British Crown and were opposed to conscription, Premier Adeelard Godbout recognized that failure to oppose Hitler was a greater evil than conscription. He threw his support being the war effort - and earned the scorn of his province's intelligentsia. Forty-five years after Godbout's death - his great-nephew, poet, essayist, novelist and film maker - Jacques Godbout, launches an investigation into Quebec during the Second World War. A film about the writing of history and our views of the past, Traitor or Patriot asks uneasy questions about history: who is remembered, who is forgotten and why?