A garbage king meets a broken girl—sometimes saving someone means destroying everything else.
Thanks to his wife Madeleine, a social worker who saved him from the street when he was 17-years-old, Pierre Dalpé has become a prosperous entrepreneur, running a garbage-collection business in the Montreal area. His quiet happiness with his wife and their children changes when he crosses paths with Eve, a teenage drug addict/prostitute who belongs to a street gang.
Acting
Sophie Desmarais haunts every frame as Eve.
Direction
Pilon treats Montreal's margins with unflinching compassion.
Writing
Refuses easy redemption arcs—messy stays messy.
Director
Benoît Pilon
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in working-class Montreal suburbs rarely seen in Quebec cinema's usual Old City romance.
The garbage business metaphor isn't subtle—Piron literalizes what Pierre discards to maintain his clean life.
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