After a week of leave, Sylvie is back at the Quebec company where she has been an exemplary employee for more than 15 years. She is then requested to attend a bizarre meeting.
A filming crew meets Harry Houde, a charismatic, yet polarizing and unethical private detective from Quebec City. After a few weeks, they all go to Gaspesia, where Harry hopes he can find a woman who has been missing for 5 years.
In the 1980s, low-key hustlers who took advantage of the James Bay Project to enrich themselves try to protect their assets despite the end of the work and the exile of the workers.