In 1940, the nephew of the mayor of a village in northern Quebec sets off with a young Amerindian woman in search of her mother, who may be able to cure him of his skin disease.

In the late 1970s, the most feared hitman in the Montreal underworld, Donald Lavoie, found himself hunted down by his former accomplices and by a tenacious police officer.

Stranded in an Adirondack village after fleeing Montreal with her two children, a single mother is challenged by a garage owner with a dark past.