WORKMAN STREET

Although highlighted by a premeditated murder this is nevertheless the story of a people living a life without expectations during the Thirties Forties and Fifties in urban ghettos of Montréal condemned by circumstances to live a life of misery without history and future. Observed by a boy caught up in the same poverty trap and wounded intellectually for a few years with a massive indoctrination program of servile obedience and enforced acceptance without question to a dogmatic belief system - in this case the French-Canadian medieval version of Roman Catholicism of olden days. In the end it brings out a ray of hope by suggesting that similar to the first group of entrepreneurs of the Beauce region - those original and inspiring 'can do' people of Québec - a generalized underground movement has at last begun an original creativity and economic development bypassing the previous limits of language stifling religion and the ideological self-imposed traditional barriers to entrepreneurship and business.