根据1970年真实事件改编。当时因为加拿大魁北克的独立分子经常制造舆论，致使官方出动大批警察逮捕可疑分子。当地政府请求国会发布戒严令。于是，警察和部队逮捕了一次集会中的近450人，把他们都投进监狱，却没有指控任何犯罪行为。他们在狱中饱受精神以及肉体的折磨。这种毫无任何理由的关押让人们感到震惊。

亚历山大睁开眼，发现自己躺在医院里。从车祸中幸存了下来的他，在当了六个月的植物人后醒来，不过却彻底地失忆了。面对这个完全陌生的世界，亚历山大开始了寻找自我的旅程。这场回归并不容易。当亚历山大再次见到那些曾经历过的物事，片断的图象开始闪现于他的脑海，而那些画面看起来却是那么的陌生和不可信。亚历山大从家人、朋友那里一点一滴地拾回自己，但拼凑出的那段遥远的过去却不是美丽的。亚历山大迫切地希望能记起一切，他不懈的搜寻意味着过去的真相最终将被重新提起。但这真相，却是他自己多年以来极力想要忘却的。

The wife of photographer J.A. Martin decides to go with him in his tour of the hard Canadian countryside at the turn of the century. She hopes the intimacy will revive their marriage.

Two women and a transvestite gay man cross paths in this French Canadian drama. The transvestite is preparing for a drag-queen beauty pageant, and has decided to present himself as Cleopatra. Of the two women, one was just fired from her waitressing job and seeks to go back to work at the nightclub where the beauty pageant is to be held. The other woman's mother has just won one million food stamps.

Two bored Montreal housewives (Monique Mercure & Louise Turcot), with inattentive husbands (Marcel Sabourin & Donald Pilon), and lots of time on their hands, amuse themselves by paying the local tradesmen something extra to give them amorous attention. Their entertainment leads to frantic confusion, however, when one of the visiting gentlemen - shall we say - 'expires'. The housewives deal with their unpleasant situation quite energetically.