Gilles Renaud

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.

Two sisters working in a munitions factory during WWII dream of only one thing: marriage. As the Canadian government passes a law to draft all single men past a certain date, there is a huge rush for couples to marry and marry fast.

Pierre Leduc is a man whose expectations have hit rock bottom. In is late 30s he teaches Eastern European literature in a Quebec University. He is roused by a call for help from his father, suffering from a terminal cancer. He wants to leave Pierre his fortune, amassed dishonestly in real estate. Pierre refuses the money, because he doesn't want any part of the ill-gotten gains. Soon after, a teenager knocks on Pierre's door: it is his daughter, Adèle, whose mother he had abandoned before the girl was born. Pierre denies being her father, but Adèle eventually convinces him. Soon, the reunion with his daughter revives Pierre's will to live. But the past will come back to haunt him.

A couple in Québec deals with the pitfalls, pressure and high expectations of raising kids in a society obsessed with success and social media image.

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.