Joanie Guérin

December 31, 1999. Quebec is a few hours from year 2000 and its potential bug. Trapped in a Montreal appartement, Momo needs only one thing to survive this nightmare: couscous.

In a world where books and cars share a sales floor, a misanthropic and immortal bookselling demon is forced to team up with a young, enthusiastic human assistant to save his bookstore.

Tired of her parents' constant arguments, 12-year-old Justine and her friends do everything they can to make them divorce.

Montreal, 1991. Delphis, 11 years old, grows up in a disadvantaged neighborhood and an unstable family environment. One evening, he decides to take control of his life and becomes The Hurricane. Armed with a lightning bolt on his headband and his middle finger held high, he flees a world that has no place for him. With the police and the Youth Protection Services on his trail, he leaves a mother in distress and has significant encounters in the street. Conquering himself, his adventure is like a road trip, from Hochelag' to Berri, from one family to another. Under the impetus of a hasty adolescence, his freedom thumbs his nose at the indifference towards the marginalized. Social etiquettes burst forth in an assertive tone and sustained rhythm. Between punk music and Marjo, The Hurricane hits us in the face, without waiting to die!

Walid works in a grocery store thanks to an integration program. After a difficult day where clients have argued and his boss yelled at him, he tries to end his life. He is saved by Antonin, an extroverted employee who decides to follow him everywhere in order to avoid an irreparable gesture. Together, they roam the city, multiplying chance encounters. Antonin even decides to bring him to his support group. Regardless of the results, he will do everything in his power to make his new friend want to live again.

While going through a period of limbo, filmmaker Sophie Bédard Marcotte turns her camera on her playwright neighbour. Together, they dissect the various stages of artistic creation in irresistibly funny chapters.

When the wait in a hospital emergency room becomes unbearable, seven patients open up in turn, revealing their pain, fears, frustrations, hopes and fragile expectations through four interwoven choral monologues.