Daniel Schachter

Meghan agrees to visit her ex-boyfriend’s mother in palliative care, but minutes before she enters the hospital room he reveals to her that his mother doesn’t know they’ve broken up. Meghan doesn’t want to go through with the ruse, but he twists her arm. Will his mother see through them?

It’s perhaps too wintery to qualify as Edenic, but Sam and Cora have seemingly carved out a largely idyllic existence for themselves in a cabin in the hills of Gatineau. However, the tree-planter/taxidermist and server/poet find their routine disrupted when they’re visited by Nadia, one of Sam’s dearest friends.

December 24, 1983, 10:50 p.m.; Julie and her cousins ate too much sugar, and Santa Claus is late. Denis, alone in his car, is anxious about setting foot in his former in-laws’ house to pick up his children.