Charlotte Laurier

A lonely French Canadian girl wants her mother all to herself. Winner of eight Genie Awards.

Fired from her racing team, a mountain biker in midlife crisis moves in with her brother and befriends an older Italian.

In 1940s Quebec, a group of orphaned children are placed in a psychiatric hospital. Byproducts of a broken social system, the children, who are of sound body and mind, create a secret society in the underground passages below the hospital.

Based on a famous Quebecan novel and set during the Second World War, a family in the slums of Montreal struggle to overcome poverty while striving for a better life. Romance soon beckons, but as with everything else, this provides more difficulties.