Apostol, an architect on this side of forty, meets by chance Bella at a swimming pool on the night of her graduation party.

Based on a novel by Mordecai Richler, allegedly his autobiography, it tells the story of a Jewish writer, from his life as a young boy in Montreal to his more complicated grown-up life.

Deux adolescentes, en mal d'amour, ne voient plus de raison de vivre dans un monde d'adultes anesthésié, indifférent, aveugle à leur détresse. Le film est composé comme une partition musicale en trois mouvements et joue davantage sur l'atmosphère et l'émotion que sur le discours et l'action. «À aucun moment, je n'ai souhaité qu'on puisse s'identifier aux deux personnages. Que les spectateurs restent spectateurs et rien de plus !»

Despite the fact that he is completely unrepentant about his crimes, when Regis Savoie's son asks to visit him, prison authorities grant permission for the boy to come. The thief and murderer (Gildor Roy) takes advantage of the moment of his son's arrival to steal a gun and take flight. He settles some old scores, gets together with his girlfriend, and heads for the hills, pursued by a detective who is not to be swayed in his efforts to follow and recapture him.

XVII century, Bulgaria is under Ottoman rule. Four men break into the house of the shepherd Karaivan, raping and killing his wife in full view of their child, Maria. To protect his daughter and to enact revenge, he raises Maria as a son, teaching her to fight and kill. But as Maria grows up, she longs for a different life.