East-end Montreal in the mid-1920s. A popular restaurant is, razed by an arsonist. Seventy-five people perish in the inferno. While strolling with his wheelchair-ridden father, a man furtively salvages a charred icon from the ruins. He is Remouald Tremblay, a self-effacing bank clerk, whose pocket holds a treasured rabbit's foot and whose memory contains an unspeakable hell.
