Synopsis

1979. Tueur à gages redoutable, Donald Lavoie travaille sous les ordres de Claude Dubois, le boss de la pègre du Sud-Ouest de Montréal. L'assassin prend sous son aile la jeune recrue Serge Rivard, un bouillant petit malfrat qui ne tarde pas à le compromettre dans un double meurtre salopé. Grâce aux avocats chèrement payés par le clan Dubois, Donald échappe à la justice, mais ce n'est que partie remise pour le sergent-détective Roger Burns qui cherche à convaincre Lavoie de devenir délateur.

1979. Donald Lavoie is a fearsome hitman who works under the orders of Claude Dubois, the boss of the Montreal South-West mob. The assassin takes the young rookie Serge Rivardunder his wing, a hotheaded crook who compromises him in a dirty double murder. Thanks to the lawyers dearly paid by the Dubois clan, Donald escapes justice but that's only a temporary setback for Detective Sergeant Roger Burns, who tries to convince Lavoie to become an informer. To test his devotion, Dubois asks him to eliminate someone close to him. When he disobeys the order, Donald joins forces with other criminals to plan a bank robbery to finance his exile to the South. Hunted by the Dubois clan on one side and Burns' investigators on the other, Donald finds himself caught in a tightening vise.