 Gilles meets Guylaine on a beach. He s a bookish scholar with glasses; she s a waitress in a blue-collar bar in a rough part of Montreal. Gilles comes for a visit... Guylaine s brother Bob works for the brutal gangster Matroni. Two toughs have hijacked a tractor-trailer full of stolen car parts that Matroni was about to deliver to an even worse gangster, Boyd. Boyd is very dangerous and he wants those parts. Guylaine s friend Linda knows the hijackers and has left their names with her mum in a letter. The thugs have gotten to Bob and beaten him up, so that means only one person can take the letter to Matroni at his autowrecking yard, polite and courteous Gilles...