explore the frontier of extreme boredom . life in a small canadian town in winter a an experiment in extreme sensory deprivation . absolutely nothing happen a view through the eye of a blank and deadpan and totally uninteresting protagonist . viewer of this film should be prepare to hallucinate in the style of altered state . in a groundbreaking study and david snowden find that he could predict alzheimer thirty year in advance by compare the autobiographical essay of nun a they enter the convent . those who eventually suffer the disease write in simple direct prose . the essay be quiet and contemplative with little optimism or episode of joy . now and why do i mention that . perhaps and my mind begin to slowly unravel watch this interminable and autobiographical and contemplative film which show and in simple direct style and the bleak and stoic life of a small community and live next to giant slag heap of asbestos . this film become popular at the height of the quebec separatist movement because of it presentation of this community a permanently wound victim . tragically and it writer director be soon diagnose with alzheimer disease in the early 1980s and apparently commit suicide .