Marie-Louise Gariépy

In the wake of his father’s disappearance at sea, Kojo, a young Ghanaian, is drawn into a world of street gangs and deception. Meanwhile, in Quebec, Tony discovers his mother’s relationship with a mysterious sailor who may hold the key to finding the father he’s never met.

Twelve-year-old Beans is on the edge: torn between innocent childhood and reckless adolescence; forced to grow up fast and become the tough Mohawk warrior she needs to be during the Oka Crisis, the turbulent Indigenous uprising that tore Quebec and Canada apart for 78 tense days in the summer of 1990.

Reynold is dying of cancer. He uses his last meals to share them with his daughter. As the meal progresses, a ritual begins to take hold, the dishes acting as reminders of the past. Vanessa discovers who her father really is.

In the mid-1970s, Rico, a 9-year-old Haitian boy, was brutally torn from his native land along with Erzulie, his mother, to a strange planet called Canada. Since their arrival, a distance seems to have grown between mother and son. To regain the love of his mother, Rico will have to understand this New World populated by individuals with strange habits and customs. Fortunately for him, he can count on Kana, his imaginary friend who comes straight out of Haitian mythology.

KTO, a probe with artificial intelligence, is launched towards the star Rigel to establish contact with an extraterrestrial consciousness enigmatic. During the thousand-year journey, consumed by solitude, KTO erase all human knowledge to reach Rigel and be reborn as a child of the cosmos.