Queer criminality meets romantic love in this riveting and unconventional murder mystery. Set in Montreal, this adaptation of Rene-Daniel Dubois’ taut, claustrophobic play opens up the action and heightens its original dramatic force. Relying less on the ‘whodunnit’ angle and more on the ‘why-did-he-do-it’, the film opens with an erotic hyperkinetic sequence focusing on a steamy sex scene which ends with a brutal murder. Three days later, Yves, a sexy male prostitute, summons the police to a judge’s chamber and admits to the apparently senseless crime. Unapologetically gay and not the killer type, Yves, the lover of the deceased Claude, soon becomes embroiled in a harrowing interrogation which lays bare his tortured soul to the tough, but strangely sympathetic cop. A fine drama that works both as a suspense thriller and an absorbing tale of gay passion and desperate love.

French with English subtitles.