Abel leaves for the Cote d’Azur where he meets Anne (Anouk Ferjac), a children’s court judge whose relationship with her husband (François Perrot) has deteriorated.
[5] In the program notes for the film Harcourt wrote: "Conceived as a continuation of Lefebvre's Il ne faut mourir pour ça, Le Vieux pays où Rimbaud est mort tells the story of Abel, who travels to France on a personal quest.
On his journey to the locations where Arthur Rimbaud was born, lived and died, Abel encounters a variety of French people who represent in their different ways the various regions of their nation.
[6] Le Vieux pays où Rimbaud est mort remains a poetic commentary on how Canadians are perhaps still fighting the old colonial battles with European powers.
"Film skirts banality in its mixture of satirical and mainly black and white looks at France by this fairly simple and direct Quebecoise of French origin.