A person's birthplace directly influences the development of their identity. Running away from it is counterproductive as we always end up coming back.   ±

The arrival of the mining company Osisko creates a lot of agitation in Malartic, a small community of 3600 in Quebec, Canada. Many families and seniors need to write off certain elements of their heritage and way of life.   ±

In the collective imagination, the West has been for a long time, a legendary destination for the people of Quebec. What is fascinating about this social phenomenon is that it persists even after many years.   ±

The characters portrayed in their intimacy are frozen in still situations which we encircle and describe the immobility, suggesting the complexity of a larger scenario that unfolds from both sides of those suspended moments.   ±

In it's relentless and slow circular movement emerge 12 characters who are observing one another. The heavy immobility raises a dramatic tension, almost absurd, which reaches its climax when all the eyes are on us.   ±

Alluding to the twelve-hour drive from her home in North Carolina to the Canadian border, Kirouac marries painting and tragi-comic theater in a performance of equal duration.   ±

In this silent movie stemming from another time, we follow Clara's animated route, been born in a bourgeois family and which, because of a magnetic storm, develops a sick sympathy for rabbits.   ±

An intense exercise of looking at a rockface shot near the waterfalls of Rivière au tonnerre, on the North Shore of the St-Lawrence river. A meditation about opacity, about the fissures that can open up anything, any situation on the infinity of meaning.   ±

A square near the Perrache train station in Lyon. The travelers and the strollers are coming and going like bleak phantoms.   ±

Postface takes a look back at the filmography of Montgomery Clift whose private life and career spiral downward after a 1956 car crash that left his face scarred and partially paralyzed.   ±