Karaoke Dream

A Canadian actress phones her boyfriend from 1970s Japan to find him immersed in politics and terrorism.

After escaping unscathed from a car accident, photo model Simone decides that having a baby is the only way to give her vacant life some meaning. She asks her best friend Philippe to get her pregnant, and he reluctantly agrees, on the condition that they conceive somewhere in a desert, so they leave Montréal on a 24-hour round-trip to Salt Lake City to find a suitable spot.

To liberate his friend who's been taken hostage by a sorcerer who's after a large ransom, a young man decides to take control of a marijuana plantation, not knowing that it belongs to his dad and that the marijuana production goes to an artist's agent.

Struggling with AIDS, Aimée comes out of the hospital. Her friend Francine leads her to the Maison Bleue for her convalescence. But Aimee's state of health does not improve: she falls into mental confusion and must stay at the Blue House until her death.

An alcoholic and potbellied fifty-year old, Pierre Lamarche has lost everything: accused of rape by Brenda, the woman he loves, he finds himself in the street after a spell in prison. Obsessed by his ex-lover, he suspects her of sleeping with the neighbours and taking up prostitution. Confiding his misfortunes to the camera in the same way as he would submit himself to therapy, Pierre considers himself rather like the producer of a film on his life. A real ham actor, he gets into his stride and lavishes his tale with exaggerations and spicy details. For his part, Cumming directs his makeshift actors, sets the scene and provokes encounters as the master of ceremonies of what he himself describes as a lowbrow novel.

A mad clown is writing a letter to his ex-girlfriend while playing with an octopus-like creature.