12-years-old Manon promises her younger brother, Mimi, that they will stay together, despite their difficult family circumstances and the ominous signs of being put into foster care. During the height of Quebec's FLQ Crisis in 1970, they stage their own rebellion by kidnapping an elderly woman and hiding her in the country, aided by their two cousins.

In Quebec, Julien, a promising young businessman with a linear and programmed life, is upset by the emergence of various events beyond his control which crack the facade serving to silence a passion buried in him and from which he cannot escape.