

44 minSeason 2 • Episode 8
LatestFrédérique Lessard, three-time Olympic medalist, is retiring. She decides to leave her spouse, with whom she had planned to start a family. Faced with emptiness, she will discover that life is not a race and will have to learn to live without performing. Freely inspired by the life of Marianne St-Gelais, but also by several Olympians.
Acting
Éric Bruneau's quiet unraveling as a man losing his purpose.
Direction
Ouellet's unflinching close-ups on faces that perform exhaustion.
Writing
Dialogue so spare it feels like eavesdropping on real grief.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Marianne St-Gelais's real retirement at 27 sparked national mourning in Quebec; this fictionalizes what she wouldn't publicly discuss.
The series deliberately avoids sports footage until late Season 2 — you're meant to feel her absence from the thing that defined her.