Yvon Aucoin

The daily lives of the personnel of the St-Vincent hospital in Montréal.

To commemorate the passing of their beloved father, four brothers very much at odds congregate for one final week at their summer house in the Magdalen Islands. As they bid their final goodbyes, the four brothers revisit their past joys and hardships as each one of them struggles to give meaning to their very different lives.

The car repair shop is their second home and their colleagues are like family. Everyone has their quirks and is accepted for the way they are. But then comes the bad news: they are soon to be squeezed out by a more lucrative new building project.

Eager to prove himself to his father, Jasmin finally gets the chance to accompany him to the fish factory he runs. But when an emergency call brings them there one evening, a journey through its labyrinthine corridors exposes a disturbing reality that shatters everything Jasmin believed about his father and his future.

In 1940s’ rural Quebec, Marguerite assists her sister Aimée who’s been in painful labour for hours. Alerted by the midwife that a caesarean is necessary, their father leaves to seek the village doctor.

A Montreal man imagines a mermaid in place of the writer whose picture appears on a novel.

The daily lives of the personnel of the St-Vincent hospital in Montréal.