Aux Travers

Chronicle of the last days of an AIDS patient at the Maison d’Hérelle, an organization that offers palliative care for end-of-life support. The film explores the passage to death by referring to the past life and the inevitable end that is fast approaching.

In the vastness of the Laurentides territory, Laurent tries to fulfill his father's will to spread his ashes in his favorite river : the Hare, 137 miles deep in the heart of the forest.

In 19th-century Quebec, Claire, a kitchen hand for a group of fishermen, dreams of learning the men's trade. When she’s invited on a midnight fishing lesson, a nightmare unfolds, and Saule, a nurse, devotes herself to saving her. Together, the two women face their own wounds and join forces to survive.