A downbeat story of life inside a women's prison. There is more crime inside than out. When the inmates see that a woman is soon to be admitted for killing a young boy, they begin to plan her murder.

A woman is overwhelmed with having to deal with her emotionally unstable daughter, mentally-challenged brother and two suitors while simultaneously trying to run her small firewood business.

In a poor neighborhood, teenagers plot an assassination while a party is being organized for the local usurer.

Tragicomic portrait of a bar's owners and patrons in a poor Montreal neighbourhood.