Aurélie Laflamme, 14 year old, feels alone in the universe. She studies in a girls college and is stuck with a mother who’s obsessed with cleaning the house and who has a crush...

Montreal, 1970. The radical left-wing nationalist group, ‘Front de libération du Québec’ (FLQ), forced the province into a state of emergency with kidnappings, bombings, and...

Estate del 1969. Il mondo sta cambiando velocemente, e si è appena passati attraverso un anno epocale e rivoluzionario, il Sessantotto. Frisson, 12 anni, sente sbocciare dentro...

In the summer of ’68, Leon Doré comes close to hanging himself. His mother saves him at the last minute, just like last summer in the pool and two years ago in the freezer. At...

Oscar, a 10-year-old boy, is staying in the children’s hospital. Neither the doctors nor his parents dare speak the truth about his illness. Only Rose, the grumpy woman who...

Simone Beaulieu, better known as Mother Augustine, runs a convent school for girls in the Canadian province of Quebec in the 1960s. She has turned the little convent into a...

Émilie, a thirteen-year-old, has been placed in a youth protection group home. Confronted by strict new rules and the authoritarian presence of her case worker, she chooses to...