In Saint-Étienne, an old forested village, a young woman unravels the mystery surrounding her father's sudden death. As strange incidents multiply around her, what she discovers is even more sinister and horrifying than anything she could have imagined.

Would-be filmmaker Sophie left Africa for Canada as a child. After graduating, she films the daily doings as part of a summer job at a fair. When pointing the camera at herself, she reveals painful secrets from the past.

In 1968, an internationally renowned French film director unexpectedly lands in Abitibi, in the northwest of Quebec, to conduct political and mass-media experiments. This event fuels the revolutionary tendencies of Michel, a local young man, and the desire to travel the world of Marie, his girlfriend.