In the 1890s, without news of the eldest brother left to work for the Canadian Pacific Railway to support his family. The youngest, Roy, sets out to find him through the inhospitable wintry lands of the American Northwest.

André lives in a world where a person considered to be too unproductive is shot down by his boss before being retrained for his organs. Obsessed with the idea that he must do his job well at all costs, he sentences his colleague Simon to death by denouncing him to his employer Eric, considering that Simon works too little.