A Marxist critique of the capitalist system, Gilles Groulx filmed Quebec society as he saw it in the fall of 1971.
[1] Alternating between colour and black and white, the film combines actuality footage, graffiti, didactic texts, live sequences, various interviews, newspaper articles and television extracts, edited into a structure whose form and commentary offer both an analysis of society and the necessity and hope of social change.
The film was originally titled 1461 jours, but was changed to 24 heures ou plus following a call for a twenty-four hour general strike by unions in Quebec.
National Film Board of Canada Commissioner Sydney Newman halted production on the movie and made efforts to prevent bootleg recordings from spreading.
The film was officially cancelled in June 1973, and Groulx offered to buy its rights, but was denied.