A wealthy retiree’s pursuit of aesthetic perfection leads him to hire a private investigator’s earnest young intern to follow an amateur model after he discovers her face in local copy of a Rossetti painting. The man and boy quickly bond and, with the help of a would-be pickup artist, quietly interject themselves into the life of the girl as she enters university, in a Montreal awash with student protests.

When disgraced Flight Crash Investigator Sofia Gilchrist’s brother dies in the crash of a plane she was supposed to be on, Sofia breaks protocol and secretly begins investigating the crash.