Amélie Chérubin-Soulières
Abstinence leads to suffering, falling off the wagon means death. Tinou must adhere to a strict regimen to qualify as a recipient of a new liver. Aschi is also suffering: from the lacklustre present, which seems to render his brilliant past all the more magnificent. But he retrieves the past in a letter from South Africa.
Mère de Cure-Dent
Her name is Punchy, his is Toothpick. They are 10 year old runaways. Living in the back-alley of an unknown industrial city, they build their own happy family.
Mère Laurie
캐나다 소도시에 사랑하는 아내, 딸과 함께 남부러울 것 없는 일상을 보내는 외과의사 하멜. 어느 날, 등교 하던 딸이 실종되는 사건이 벌어지고 경찰과 함께 딸을 찾아나선 하멜은 성폭행 당한 채 싸늘한 주검이 된 딸을 발견하고 충격과 슬픔에 휩싸인다. 곧이어 한 남자가 용의자로 체포되고, 그의 만행에 분노한 하멜은 용의자를 납치한 뒤 경찰에 7일 후 그를 살해할 것을 예고하고 하멜의 복수를 막기 위한 경찰의 추격이 시작 되는데….
Caissière supermarché
After the death of her unfaithful husband, Gisele, a social worker of 52 years, falls madly in love with Yannick, one of her former customers and kleptomaniac addict. She tries to repress her feelings, but the attraction she has for this 19 year old boy is beyond comprehension. Her sister, her boss and two children will each turn, disrupt her secret meetings with her young lover.
Serveuse Black
Mathilde
In April 1994, the middle-aged Canadian journalist Bernard Valcourt is making a documentary in Kigali about AIDS. He secretly falls in love for the Tutsi waitress of his hotel Gentille, who is younger than him, in a period of violent racial conflicts. When the genocide of the Tutsis by the Hutus in Rwanda begins, Bernard does not succeed in escaping with Gentille to Canada. When the genocide finishes in July 1994, Bernard returns to the chaotic Kigali seeking out Gentille in the middle of destruction and dead bodies.
Deuxième fille du marché
A young Haitian (Michel Mpambara) who loves America visits his uncle (Maka Kotto) in Montreal.