In the days after his father has a startling accident, TV presenter Toby Menard makes a series of terrible choices. As a result, he is fired from his job, loses his superb condo, his beautiful girlfriend and his beloved BMW. Worse still, he must move back to the grey Montreal suburb of his youth and live in his parents' basement. In a moment of misplaced gallantry, Toby encounters an unstable francophone mother who disappears and abandons her two-year-old son, Hugo, to his care. Trapped with a toddler and forced to deal with his father's tragedies, Toby emerges from the basement bungalow of his life - muddy, broke, bruised, heartbroken - but, finally, a man.
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