In Irenee-les-Neiges, a small, isolated town with a population of 215, Simon Dube dies in a car accident. The stunned townspeople are reluctant to discuss the circumstances of the tragedy. From that point on, for the Dube family as well as for Mayor Smallwood and a handful of others, time seems to lose all meaning, and the days stretch on without end. Something descends slowly upon the area. In this period of mourning and in this fog, strangers start to appear. Who are they? What is happening?
The latest work from Denis Côté (Perth-Andover, Canada. 1973) was presented in the Official Selection at the last Berlinale. Since 2005, Denis Côté has gained a solid reputation as an independent filmmaker on both the Quebecois and international scenes. After directing many short films and working for a number of years as a journalist and film critic (1995-2005), he made his feature film debut with Les états nordiques (Drifting States, 2005). Worthy of note in his filmography, which has space for both fiction and documentaries, are titles such as Curling (2010), which received the Best Director and Best Actor awards at the Locarno Festival, and Vic + Flo ont vu un ours (Vic + Flow Saw a Bear, 2013), earning him the Alfred Bauer Prize at the Berlin Festival. He competed for the Golden Bear at the German competition with his two most recent works, Boris sans Béatrice (Boris without Béatrice, 2016) and Répertoire des villes disparues (Ghost Town Anthology).