Set in the Faubourg à mélasse district of Montreal, Quebec, in the 1950s, the film centres on a conflict between the Roman Catholic Church and a young team of baseball players.
Donald Pilon is a Canadian film and television actor. He won the Canadian Film Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1972 for his role in The True Nature of Bernadette, and was a Genie Award nominee in the same category in 1985 for The Crime of Ovide Plouffe.