Henry an American, is a drug dealer doing his rounds one
night in the streets of Montreal answering his constantly ringing cellphone
whilst trying to look for road signs. He inadvertently turns into a one-way street
going the wrong way and runs over Natalie a pregnant woman having contractions
who’s desperately looking for a Cab to take her to hospital.
When she wakes up later in hospital suffering just from
concussion, she has to deal with the news that the baby has died and she will
need a stillbirth operation. Her cold
fish of a husband just wants her to get it done quickly so they can get on with
their lives and he can get back to work.
Henry meanwhile having made an anonymous phone call
for the ambulance and then driven off, is having pangs of conscience. He persuades a neighbor’s teenage kid to go
play amateur detective and see what happened.
Once they discover that Natalie survived, Henry starts stalking her and
they end up meeting in a bar and they get connected. Nathalie is grieving not just the loss of this, her
first baby, but also her marriage too.
Henry on the other hand, feeling as guilty as hell, wants to help Nathalie
out but after a while they both develop feelings towards each other beyond
that.
It is inevitable that Nathalie has to discover who
Henry really is and we see if she can actually deal with the harsh reality of
the truth.
It’s a fresh wee drama from newbie filmmaker Deborah
Chow that relies heavily of the forceful performances of the two leads: the
chemistry between Zach Braff and Isabelle Blais is the reason that this film
works as well as it does. If I have one
small ‘but’ (and I usually do) it’s the fact that Henry only deals in drugs approved
by the FDA that have been smuggled in from the USA, as if in some way that makes
him a more moral dealer.
★★★★★★★
★★★★★★★
