A troubled man with personality issues tries to make sense of his relationships with the women in his life. His growing sense of despair will slowly push him to committing the irreversible.
Mégantic is inspired by the events that occurred during the Lac-Mégantic rail tragedy in 2013. This fiction follows the destinies of Méganticois marked by bereavement and trauma, but also by solidarity, courage and heroism.
Noémie (15 years old) has lived in a youth center for three years. When she loses all hope of being taken back by her mother, Noémie runs away in search of meaning and freedom. She goes to join her friend Léa, a former member of the center, who introduces her to a gang of delinquents. Soon, she meets Zach there who quickly offers her to be an escort for a weekend. Recalcitrant at first, Noémie says yes.
Noémie (15 years old) has lived in a youth center for three years. When she loses all hope of being taken back by her mother, Noémie runs away in search of meaning and freedom. She goes to join her friend Léa, a former member of the center, who introduces her to a gang of delinquents. Soon, she meets Zach there who quickly offers her to be an escort for a weekend. Recalcitrant at first, Noémie says yes.
Bénédicte, a thirty-year-old woman with unstable mental health, sinks into a deep psychosis after getting killed in a holdup.
When Maria thinks she's at the bottom of the barrel, she discovers that this barrel has a double bottom: no job, no money, no worthy accomplishment and now a dying mother begging her to do something with her life. before his death! She has no other choice but to get back in hand and find a career ... But what can she do with a 7-year-old BAC in communication and no work experience? Believe it or not, she can become a substitute in a high school! Thus, Maria, 30, as responsible and stable as a 14-year-old teenager, returns to high school in the role of the one to whom she threw pieces of erasers: the replacement. Too jaded teachers, rebellious teenagers, intimidated or not sufficiently denounced, she will be confronted with the reality of teachers and young people today and, who knows, may discover a vocation.
Twelve-year-old Beans is on the edge: torn between innocent childhood and reckless adolescence; forced to grow up fast and become the tough Mohawk warrior she needs to be during the Oka Crisis, the turbulent Indigenous uprising that tore Quebec and Canada apart for 78 tense days in the summer of 1990.
Twelve-year-old Beans is on the edge: torn between innocent childhood and reckless adolescence; forced to grow up fast and become the tough Mohawk warrior she needs to be during the Oka Crisis, the turbulent Indigenous uprising that tore Quebec and Canada apart for 78 tense days in the summer of 1990.