Élise Guilbault

Struggling with loss, a suicidal paediatrician meets a gentle man who has strong faith.

An old woman who drinks is dying. She thinks back on her youth and the bender that lost her everything when she was 46. The story of a woman from a working class background who wanted to climb the social ladder and was brought down by love, a lost woman who, at the end of her life, reclaims her dignity.

Marc Côté, street chaplain and parish priest in Montreal, has been helping the poor and homeless for 25 years with his church and shelter. Exhausted and on the verge of bankruptcy, he suddenly inherits a property in the Bas-du-Fleuve region. Marc decides to take a group of homeless people who, like him, need a well-deserved vacation for one summer.

A series of short tales feature an immigrant cabby, his passengers and other individuals in crisis.