The main character of the film - a middle-aged man Jean-Marc lives in a rather large house in the province, every day goes to work in Quebec, where he is engaged in counseling people with social problems, not being either satisfied with his job or a happy person. He has a family - a wife and two teenage daughters, but everyone lives their own "life" - his daughters have headphones in their ears, his wife, being a very successful broker, constantly solves problems on the phone, their sexual relationships have stopped, he has no one to throw himself with. The mother is in a nursing home, he visits her once a week, watching her fade away, he still retains some affection for her, but she is already leaving for her world and will eventually leave. Life around is absolutely absurd, people are decimated by epidemics, laws are inhuman. And he created for himself a fantastic imaginary world in which he is variously successful, because in his youth he gave great hopes, in which he is loved by women and desired by them.
The director does not spare very caustic satirical colors for the depiction of all this life and the hero himself, constantly balances on the edge, but does not let you slide into pity, although the hero, of course, sympathize. After the movie, there is a pretty sad feeling.
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