20h17 rue Darling

A former journalist, three times divorced, Gerard is now a member of Alcoholics Anonymous who lives in a small apartment on Darling street. By a combination of circumstances, he isn’t home when his building explodes one evening, causing the death of six people.

Moved by the fact that he has escaped death, Gerard finds his old journalistic instincts returning and decides to research his dead neighbors’ pasts to understand what occurred, but also to give meaning to this terrible event.