Even though the protagonist of the Canadian Femme De L'Hotel is a female filmmaker, one would think twice before suggesting that this effort by Swiss-born director Lea Pool is autobiographical. Paule Baillargeon portrays a well-known director who returns to her home town of Montreal to film a high-budget musical drama. At her hotel, Paule has a brief but unsettling encounter with a suicidal elderly woman (Louise Marleau). This element of the plot is briefly forgotten as we get to know the actors in Paule's current project. Then she meets the old lady again, and with mounting incredulity Paule discovers that the actual events in the woman's life mirror the fictional events in the director's film.

Hélène is a woman who already has, in her view, quite enough children. For some time she has secretly been taking birth control pills, but now she is too old to use them safely. When her husband Gabriel discovers the pills, he is distressed, since he wants a large family. The two of them discuss their differing attitudes and desires but come to no resolution.

An actor works as night watchman at a film studio where a musical serial killer strikes.

En pleine rue, dans un quartier populaire de Montréal, un jeune homme est assassiné. Fait divers pour les médias, ce drame ébranle les proches de la victime, des jeunes pour qui la violence est pourtant une denrée quotidienne. Love-moi fait l'autopsie de cette violence. Au banc des accusés : huit jeunes. Les témoins à charge : le mépris, l'indifférence, les préjugés, l'oppression... L'univers de ces jeunes est sans rêves, sans illusions et sans espoir. Ils n'ont rien, sinon peut-être le choix de se condamner eux-mêmes et, parfois, le cran de mettre fin à leurs jours... sans se rater.

Industrial pollution causes water poisoning and generalized sickness in a nearby city and is the start of a major news scandal.