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.
Éric Bruneau
Charles Rivard
Louis Morissette
Sylvain Carrier
Sylvie Léonard
Françoise Lavoie
Karl Farah
Hubert Rivard
Denis Marchand
Claude Rivard
Audrey Roger
Clara Jean-Baptiste
Adrien Lacroix
Joseph Jean-Baptiste
Lauren Hartley
Audrey Barrette
Véronique Beaudet
Julie Carrier
Lamia Benhacine
Magalie
Elliott Mitrani
Frédéric Chartré
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.
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