Marie-Thérèse Fortin

Nicolas, a famous doctor and scientist, has an incurable disease and knows he is going to die. He is ageing, suffering from insomnia, caught in a bad marriage to a younger woman, and father to a teenage daughter he doesn’t understand. The only thing connecting him to life is the affection of his adopted daughter, Katia. In her thirties, she has abandoned her career as an actress and is struggling with deep depression against which he feels powerless.

When the father he never met dies, 30-something Mathieu travels to Montréal for the funeral and learns none of his family was aware of his existence.

A young weapons instructor at a customs officer college is forced to return home after a scandal and finds himself under suspicion by the police for a series of sexually explicit drawings plaguing the town.