After hearing that a famous actress is dying in a hospital after being hit by a car, a reporter goes to the hospital to interview the actress. She then tells the reporter that her wealthy fiance, who was killed in an accident several years before, was actually murdered. Before long the reporter finds herself in a web of corruption, mental illness and murder.

The filmmaker adapts "De mémoire incomplète", one of her own short stories, into a film that portrays the encounter of two people wounded by the past and by history, over the course of a day and a night on a street in Montreal. Past, present, imagination, and reality intertwine in the subjective vision of its protagonist, Ana María, as the Canadian city becomes a dreamlike landscape.