Pierre Collin

A new factory is promised to the residents of the tiny fishing village St. Marie-La-Mauderne, provided they can lure a doctor to take up full-time residency on the island. Inspired, the villagers devise a scheme to make Dr. Christopher Lewis a local.

Sent to a Quebec village to investigate mysterious disappearances, a journalist discovers a universe that oscillates between drama and fantasy. The disappearance of his photographer and the presence of strange characters, will lead him on tracks where the notion of identity is compromised... including his own.

Mysterious circumstances bring Linda and Ghislain together. A mother by day, seductress by night, Linda is trying to get enough money together to move to the country with her five-year-old daughter. Ghislain is a recluse whose only distraction in an otherwise humdrum existence is listening to his blues records.

Un étranger surnommé "le survenant" arrive dans une petite communauté rurale. Il scandalise la communauté, mais il suscite aussi l'admiration et gagne l'amour d'une femme.