The Machine Age

It's just before Christmas in 1933. Herve, a newly minted Montreal based member of the Quebec Provincial Police force, has just been given his first assignment: to pick up Claude Lachance, a seventeen year old prisoner from a little town outside of Senneterre in western Quebec, and bring Lachance back to Montreal. Before arriving at the local jail where Lachance is being housed, Herve has not read Lanchance's file. He is surprised to find that Lachance is an innocent looking girl, who the local policeman says is not to be trusted and who must be handcuffed at all times on the trip to Montreal. Waiting for the delayed train at Senneterre to travel back to Montreal on Christmas Eve, Herve learns directly from Claude that her sole crime is that she is an orphanage runaway. Herve's Christmas Eve and Christmas with Claude makes him reexamine his life.