Michel Lapointe

An antique chair with a dark history possesses more than just kitschy charm.

Fouad, a 15-year-old Moroccan immigrant, and Max, a 27-year-old "old stock" Quebecer, both live frustrating lives. Their respective destinies lead them face to face, in a situation from which neither will emerge unscathed.

An epidemic of yellow crawling brains threatens the lives of inhabitants in a reclusive Northern Quebec town.