

16 minutes to break your heart over a motorcycle. You ready?
A man tormented by old age reluctantly accepts to abandon the last remaining tie to his youth: his motorcycle.
Acting
Luc Proulx's weathered silence speaks volumes.
Cinematography
Quebec landscapes mirror internal desolation.

Director
Émilie Baillargeon
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Baillargeon captures a specifically Québécois working-class masculinity rarely seen on screen—proud, silenced, eroding.
The motorcycle as phallic symbol? Obvious. But here it's memory itself—every scratch a story he can't transfer.