Set in cold rural Quebec at Christmas time, we follow the coming of age of a young boy and the life of his family which owns the town's general store and undertaking business.
Au lendemain d'une soirée particulièrement épuisante, quatre couples de riches bourgeois se retrouvent dans la maison de l'un d'eux (Jean Duceppe et Catherine Bégin) et la même soirée ...
A young girl and an aged man together make a day trip from St. Boniface, Manitoba to Lake Winnipeg by steam train. Along the way, they each meditate on the passage of generations.