Various citizens of Toronto anxiously await the end of the world, which is occurring at the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Day. While widower Patrick Wheeler braces for his fate, he meets Sandra, the wife of a businessman who is intent on committing suicide. Meanwhile, Patrick’s friend Craig decides to have as much sex as he can while there is still time.

A recently widowed mother loses her children to a cold mother-in-law in Ontario during the Great Depression of the 1930s. 

Based loosely on the books “Never Sleep Three in a Bed” and “The Night We Stole the Mounties’ Car” by Max Braithwaite