Lucien Maranda
Lucas es un arquitecto de unos treinta años que vive en la región de Charlevoix en Québec. Su vida es un sueño: está casado con una guapa entrenadora deportiva, tiene un buen grupo de amigos y disfruta de muchos deportes. Nada parece estropear su feliz vida. Sin embargo con motivo de un viaje a Toronto tiene un romance con otra mujer que se repite cuando ella visita Quebec. Mientras Lucas se enamora de su nueva conquista, su mujer, que está experimentando problemas de salud mental, piensa en el suicidio.
Dr. Jeanson
Véronique ne cache rien en amour. Mathieu est simplement un brin fatigué. Fred peuts'adapter à tous les genres de femmes. Rémi doit trouver ce qui l’allume dans la vie.Ce n'est que dans de brefs instants de lucidité que l'on parvient à voir le monde telqu'il est.
Policier / St-Bernard de Clairvaux
Jean Marc intenta evadirse de su mediocre vida por medio de la imaginación. Consigue así entrar en un mundo de fantasía donde es un gran héroe, un caballero de brillante armadura, una estrella del escenario y de la pantalla y un novelista de éxito que tiene a las mujeres rendidas a sus pies. En la vida real es un chupatintas, un marido insignificante y un padre fracasado que fuma a escondidas. Pero, a pesar de todo, no sucumbe a la fantasía y decide buscar otra oportunidad en el mundo real. "La edad de la ignorancia", que cierra la trilogía que completan "El declive del imperio americano" y "Las invasiones bárbaras", es una sátira, una reflexión moral sobre nuestra época.
Dr. Dubé
Rémy está hospitalizado y su exmujer llama al hijo de ambos, Sébastien, para que acuda a visitar a su padre. El joven decide que, para animar a su progenitor, debe reunir a su antiguo grupo de amigos, supervivientes del naufragio de la contracultura
André
Nick Wells (Robert De Niro), un famoso ladrón de guante blanco, ha decidido dejar para siempre su vida criminal y dedicarse a lo que realmente le interesa: su club de Jazz y su novia Diane (Angela Bassett). Pero Max (Marlon Brando) -su amigo, cómplice y socio- tiene otros planes para él: realizar su último golpe, un golpe maestro... Entrar en el edificio de Aduanas de Montreal y robar una obra de arte valorada en varios millones de dólares. Para ejecutar el plan necesitan la ayuda de Jackie Teller (Edward Norton), un joven y agresivo ladrón de mucho talento, experto en sistemas de alarma.
Louise is living in Montreal, unemployed. Her sister Paulette often gives her a hard time. She only gets to see her poetry-quoting married boyfriend Julien once a week. She hangs out a lot at the dance studio in her building... Louise decides to offer an hour of her time to strangers on the street. "An hour of myself", to do whatever they want to do. But one hour precisely, that's it. This leads to many different situations, some funny, some sexy, some sad. Louise talks to someone who later turns out to have been an undercover reporter. The reporter anticipates a bad end for Louise...
Zachary Osborne
Police detective Jacques Laniel's life becomes a nightmare the day drive-by shootists gun down his partner Thomas Colin. His colleagues make matters worse by blaming him for the death, and after his wife leaves him, Laniel decides to quit the force and launch a private investigation into Colin's murder. Soon afterward, Laniel finds the bullet-riddled body of famed author and literature professor Zachary Osborne tied to his car hood. The professor's wife hires Laniel to solve the murder, but what the detective finds is ugly: Osborne was a part of a lucrative land-speculation deal that involved the sale of a crumbling old rectory that had been turned into a halfway house called the Haven of the Monsters. The name is apt, for all the residents are convicted killers who were given inordinately light sentences. When Lanier starts questioning the Haven's tenants and their crimes are revealed via flashback, it takes on the character of a David Lynch production.
Jacques
Catherine, a concert pianist, is surprised one night by the arrival of her best friend from childhood, Marie-Alexandrine (Max), whom she hasn't seen for 25 years. Catherine and Max were Québec's most promising young pianists in the mid-1960's when the adventurous Max gets pregnant. She wants to keep the child, but her mother forces her to give him up for adoption; afterwards, Max leaves Québec and music. Now, years later, she returns, obsessed with finding her son. She locates the adoption records, and social services contacts her son to ask if he wants to see her. He refuses, but she keeps trying. Is a relationship with him possible? And what about her musical talent?
Le dragueur
A 12-year-old girl faces a father she hardly remembers after his transition into a woman.
The superior of the college
Louis
A city neighborhood is frightened by a strangler and a voyeur. The police detectives, headed by Léopold Latour, are not very efficient in their investigations, though detective Édouard Lambert does a little sleuthing on his own.
Blaise
Two young adults discover love by a beautiful Montreal winter night.
Bob Tremblay
The true identity of an undercover RCMP narcotics agent is discovered by the criminals he is investigating and his family pays the price.
A lonely woman spends the winter isolated and reminiscing about the past as she waits for her husband to return from a prolonged absence.