Antonin Bouffard

A blind woman and her eight-year-old grandson walk over a carpet of dead leaves in a park. She recounts him the terrible story of the morning she woke up completely blind, years before he was born. The boy is frightened and sadden by the realization that his grandmother has never seen his face. She can nevertheless see him with her heart.

After a dangerous sea crossing and a stay in a camp in Malaysia, the young Vietnamese Tinh and her family are accepted as refugees in Canada and arrive in Montreal where they begin their new life. But for Tinh, adapting has its share of difficulties.

12-years-old Manon promises her younger brother, Mimi, that they will stay together, despite their difficult family circumstances and the ominous signs of being put into foster care. During the height of Quebec's FLQ Crisis in 1970, they stage their own rebellion by kidnapping an elderly woman and hiding her in the country, aided by their two cousins.

The crazy story of four young rebels who will stop at nothing to find a lost cat, even if it means putting their lives in danger. Faced with a reckless police officer and a fallen babysitter, the hero of the gang will have no choice but to break all the rules and show ingenuity to achieve his goals. Refusing to give up the search, this crisis will plunge him back into a wound buried deep inside him that he has never accepted, namely the disappearance of his father.