Isolated in a country house, Simon questions his mother’s authority and resists bounderies. His behaviour influences his younger brother Colin, a sensible boy who is desperately seeking for a male role model. Colin will develop a perilous plan to try to stop Simon from running away.

Jon, a clerk working in a convenience store on a desolate highway, is visited by strange creatures that rob his store. While going after the creatures, Jon is drawn deeper and deeper in their universe.

An epidemic of yellow crawling brains threatens the lives of inhabitants in a reclusive Northern Quebec town.