Raoul Fortier-Mercier

Two recently released prisoners learn to live in a sugar shack deep in the forest.

A man disappears. As nature always wants to fill the void, Frédéric Venne, Myriam Lambert and Robert Laplante will transform their lives to fill this emptiness. What is the motive of all this? Is it to fill their own existence? To what extent are we willing to transform our own existence to comply with other people's expectations? It is a thriller of the mind that questions us on how we follow our own path in life.

Set in a rural Québec village in the dead of winter, Jean-François, a single father, works at a deserted bowling alley at night and in a rundown motel during the day. His daughter, Julyvonne, never leaves their home. Jean-François isolates her in fear that contact with the outside world will scar her the way it has him.

On the eve of Bozdoğan’s annual festival, 19-year-old Kaan and his camel navigate the intense, little-known world of Turkey’s camel wrestling, revealing a tradition where human-animal bonds, community, and centuries-old rituals collide.