[1] The film centres on a dysfunctional family whose efforts at finding and keeping love become tangled up with a stage hypnotist performing at the local hotel.
[2] Daughter Léa (Sarah-Jeanne Salvy) is in unrequited love with Reo (Martin Randez), a boxer who has instead entered a relationship with her mother Lizette (France Castel), while her sister Manon (Céline Bonnier) has a crush on Chester Celine (François Cruzet), a writer she has never met, and her father Marcel (Michel Côté) remains hurt by Lizette's betrayal of him.
They all enlist Albert the Great (Marc Messier) to hypnotize their respective love interests, but the effort backfires and forces them to deal with unintended consequences.
[4] The film is dually listed in Gerald Pratley's 2003 book A Century of Canadian Cinema, with separate entries for Ababouiné and The Wind from Wyoming.
[8] Forcier was shortlisted for Best Director at the 15th Genie Awards,[9] At the Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois in 1995, Forcier won Best Screenplay and Salvy won the Revelation of the Year award for emerging performers;[10] the film was also a nominee for Best Picture, but did not win.