In Montreal in 1945, a few months after the end of the Second World War, Jean Thibault, aka IXE-13, Canada's top secret service agent, is now the respected owner of the Crystal Club in Red Light and a former hotel above the club that once belonged to the Mafia.
At the turning point of the Iran-Contra affair, Elena McMahon, a fearless investigative journalist covering the 1984 US presidential campaign, puts herself in danger when she abandons her assigned task in order to fulfill the last wish of her ailing father, a mysterious man whose past activities she barely knows.