Montreal, Winter 2002. Stéphane, 19 years old, fan of Metal, student in graphic design, dreams of becoming an illustrator. But for months he has been caught in a threatening spiral: he is addicted to games. Indebted, without an apartment, avoiding his friends to whom he owes money, Stéphane takes a job as a dishwasher in a restaurant in a major Italian restaurant in Montreal in order to get by. There, he will meet Bébert, a cook who burns the candle at both ends, and Greg, a waiter with disreputable actions. Will Stéphane make it through this new job or will he fall into a downward spiral of bad choices?

Though Louis agrees to attend his brother’s bachelor party, he is not particularly interested in the planned activities or cleaning up after the drunken groom-to-be. But as the night’s events get wilder he is forced to decide how much he can tolerate.

An invested father-in-law, Nicolas is devastated when his girlfriend leaves him and cuts him off. So he takes refuge in his childhood hometown to find his friends and navigate with them through their lives as modern men.

Sixteen-year-old Jeff is invited by his best friend’s family to stay at a huge estate deep in the woods where the legendary director Blake Cadieux lives. Secretly in love with Alyosha, his friend’s older sister, Jeff experiences intense emotions during this extraordinary stay where he also becomes a sensitive witness to the sometimes toxic power dynamics of a pack of adults. He wishes he could count on Blake, but the possible mentor turns out to be not the role model he had hoped for.

Sophia, a 40-year-old philosophy professor, is in a stable if somewhat socially conforming relationship with Xavier. From gallery openings to endless dinner parties, ten years have already flown by. Sylvain is a craftsman, renovating Sophia and Xavier’s new country house. When Sophia and Sylvain meet, Sophia’s world is turned upside down. Opposites attract, but can they last?