Brussels, 1980s. Trapped in a house of horror by their monstrous father, a manipulative pastor, his daughters must each find a way to freedom. But how can they keep that hope alive when the oldest sister is the brainwashed accomplice of their captor — even when he starts killing?

A biologist lands on a small island in eastern Canada, where her recently deceased mother was born. Upsetting the islanders, she discovers secrets from her female lineage. Seeking to end a cycle of inherited violence, she tries to reconnect with her daughter, who lives in France with her father.

In the mid-1990s, in Quebec, France, and Switzerland, an immersion into the bloody drift of the Order of the Solar Temple through the high-risk investigation conducted jointly by a French infiltrator, Jean-Marc Larrieux, and a Quebecois criminologist, Vanessa Villeneuve.

In an eerie post-socialist apartment complex where residents vanish without a trace, women from diverse backgrounds confront societal norms and oppressive forces with dark humour and absurdity.