Enrica Boucher

A woman travels from the big city to the countryside. The locals are suspicious.

1952, Québec - Alys Robi, vocalist at the top of her popularity and recognized worldwide, was interned in spite of herself, by her father. Medical authorities prescribe her the only cure for a possible cure: the lobotomy. Under the bright lights of the operating room, Alys sees her 28-year life flash before her eyes.

One man leaves, another returns, the hero's journey. An extraordinary man reflects on his life, work and the love of his estranged wife and reluctant son, not eager to take the journey. The man's reality is haunted by a past of fascination and ambition, told through the reflections of sirens in five languages and international locations. A multi-part nonlinear narrative, music-driven and based on beat-poetics, is represented as a portal network. Inspired by Carolyn Cassady's Off the Road: Twenty Years with Cassady, Kerouac and Ginsberg.

The film is a portrait of Dave St-Pierre, a dancer and choreographer from Montreal who is urgently awaiting a lung transplant due to his lifelong battle with cystic fibrosis.