Gaz Bar Blues

It’s 1989, a year of great events, dislocations and changes, and ‘Boss’ Brochu must face them like everyone else. He and his three sons operate a small gas station in the suburbs of Quebec. It’s the gathering point of a group of local characters, greater and lesser losers. In addition to the repeated robberies, shop-lifting and competition from modern self-service stations, the Boss’s world is threatened by his sons’ unwillingness to fulfil an old world dream: taking over the business one day. The eldest son wants to be a photographer; he takes off to Berlin to document the fall of the Iron Curtain. The middle son often neglects his shifts because of the gigs he plays at local bars with his band. Only the youngest son finds a certain attraction in pumping gas.