À coeur battant (2023)

-The Centre de prévention de la violence (CPV), a community organization that intervenes with violent men, was created in order to raise awareness among these men who have committed acts of violence against their wives, children, parents and even friends and colleagues. The Centre benefits from a first-rate speaker: Christophe L'Allier. A psycho-educator by training, he was a volunteer before working for a similar organization, the Marie-Labrecque School, dedicated to young pregnant women. He chose to get involved in a new cause that touches him closely: violence in the family. He himself lived through it and had others live through it when he was a young adult. He has since done a lot of reflection on the subject and has managed to get rid of its causes. Christophe adopts the following perspective: the aggressor is known, the victims are known, the escalation to more serious acts is predictable. He wants to teach men to see the act coming that will turn their lives upside down. He chooses to intervene at the very heart of the violence. A truly titanic task. There is also Gabrielle Laflamme, Crown Prosecutor. She intervenes in particular in cases of family and intra-family violence. She has the same objectives as Christophe L'Allier, but her approach is diametrically opposed. Gabrielle considers that we live in a society that is too tolerant of acts of aggression. This is why her lever is the rigor of the law to make men understand that their violence is unacceptable. Christophe and Gabrielle dream of the day when stories of violence will no longer be the most widespread and most tolerated crime on the planet, but they perceive violence in a personal and antagonistic way. Will they be able to understand each other?