Mathieu is a public writer in a poor neighbourhood of Montreal. In the past years, he discovered that his job is more about people than literature. He must first listen and then finds the right words for those who can’t write. Feeling the need to tell what his story, he wrote a first novel inspired by his experiences. The critics love it, but the book bothers his employer who immediately fires him. Mathieu wants to continue to help, but he feels more and more divided between the two worlds.
To celebrate his 23rd birthday, Jonathan organizes a party with his girlfriend, his best friend, and his younger brother on a remote, uninhabited island in the mouth of the St. Lawrence River. As the evening wears on and the four friends become progressively drunker, Jonathan, in a show of bravado, pitches the keys of the boat into the river. The following day, after a fruitless search for the keys, the four friends realize that they are stranded on a deserted island, with a few bags of chips and very little fresh water, out of sight of civilization.
After their mother’s death, Toto and Adib are completely devastated. Among the colours of Montreal’s South-West and human imperfection at its most poetic, the series plunges into their reality for 24 hours, revealing marginal and vulnerable humans affected by this tragedy.
In order to rekindle their romantic flame, Anne and Vincent have decided to practice a different activity every Sunday, dragging along two single friends who have nothing in common to keep things light and diffuse the tension.