When a worldwide plot to divert gold which was placed in central banks all across North America is investigated, Pierre Gauthier is summoned to lead the inquiry. Gauthier however is soon betrayed, and finds himself going head to head with the "capo" of Montreal Mafia.
Narra los destinos paralelos de Jacqueline, madre de un niño en los años sesenta en París, y de Antoine, un DJ de éxito recién divorciado en el Montreal actual. Las dos historias se unen a través del amor. Un amor eufórico, obsesivo, trágico, juvenil y atemporal. Una odisea amorosa mística y fantástica.
Juan Alvarez, a Spanish refugee in Canada, shoemaker, picks up at his home Manuel, a 12-year-old Portuguese teenager, whom he teaches to read, to assert his rights and who speaks of the Spanish civil war.
After she had been raped by her father, a young woman leaves the town with her new born son. Years later, the son can't accept that his mother fell in love with someone else than the mythical father she had told him about.
