Synopsis

Victor, un artiste de la scène parisienne talentueux et tour- menté, souffre d’un lien manquant avec son père. Il quitte sa femme Lise, et part au Canada. Après avoir appris la mort de son mari Lise se rend à son tour au Canada pour tourner un documentaire. Pendant que le train traverse le pays d’est en ouest, elle se remémore son lien de soignante, presque platonique, avec Vic. En Alberta, un incident immobilise le train à Gatchell, là où le disparu vivait sous le nom de Clément. Malade, Lise se fait héberger par Alex, médecin autochtone et ex-compagne de Clément. Alex, rétive et peu bavarde, a connu un autre être. Plus manuel, proche de la forêt et de ses amis amérindiens, Clément semble avoir vécu une passion physique avec elle. Mais son angoisse devait le rattraper.

Victor is a talented but tortured Parisian stage performer pained by his estrangement from his father. He leaves his wife, Lise, and moves to Canada. After hearing that her husband has died, Lise goes to Canada to make a documentary. While the train crosses the country from east to west, she reminisces about her caring, almost platonic, relationship with Vic. In Alberta, the train breaks down in Gatchell, where Vic had been living under an assumed name, Clément. Lise is sick and goes to stay with Alex, an aboriginal doctor and Clément’s former lover. Quiet, reticent Alex had known a completely different man. Clément was more tactile, in tune with the forest, close to his native friends, and he seemed to have had an intense physical passion for Alex. But he never could escape his pain.