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A beautiful stripper hires renowned criminals to exact revenge on those who raped her in her motel room.

Quebec, the 1830s and 1840s. As she attends the bedside of Jérôme, her second husband, Élisabeth recalls her youth, her marriage to her first husband, Antoine, life in remote Kamouraska where he is seigneur, their love dissolving in his mental illness and cruelties, her falling in love with an American physician, Georges Nelson, and the aftermath of Antoine's violent death.

The demands of her family and the stress of daily life drive the mind of a woman into permanent fantasy as a way to cope.

A woman imbued with naturalistic and libertarian theories leaves her city home to live in the countryside with her young son. There she meets a litigious farmer who fights against the banks and the government, in which she will be somehow involved. Meanwhile, practising her theories, she makes some old men very happy and, by chance even passes as a saint!

A young girl that came to Montréal to find her dad is exploited by a bar owner.

Criss-cross stories adapted by author Michel Tremblay's popular plays from the Plateau borough in Montreal.

A robbery at the secluded country home of a wealthy old man goes horribly awry.

A pimp and his seven working girls move to a small conservative mining town in northern Quebec to establish a brothel.

A family refuses to leave their native village after being ordered to by the government and are pursued by the authorities as a result of an accidental shooting.

Cette comédie acerbe et surréaliste sur le mariage et la vie de couple s'avère aujourd'hui l'une des fictions les mieux réussies sur le sujet. Elle est pourtant très mal reçue, autant par la critique que par le public. À présent, la dimension ironique et l'audace de la structure narrative (un couple, une journée, une vie, une époque) ressortent davantage.