Detective John Cardinal attempts to uncover the mystery of what happened to the missing 13-year-old girl whose body is discovered in the shaft-head of an abandoned mine. At the same time, he comes under investigation by his new partner, Lise Delorme, a tough investigator in her own right.

A recent widow living in a small Quebec town goes to Montreal to visit her busy adult son and daughter, and then on a whim decides to travel to the town of her childhood, where she hadn't set foot in decades.

Produced over a 9-year period, and divided into 9 chapters, PERSPECTIVE is an episodic drama that spans 9 consecutive years in the turbulent romantic lives of a married couple and their best friend, each of whom is named “Alex”. Mysteriously, the 3 lead actors not only swap each other’s role from chapter to chapter, but sometimes within the same chapter.