Émile Proulx-Cloutier was born in 1983 in Montréal, Québec, Canada. He is an actor and director, known for Papa (2005), La vie commence (2009) and Les réfugiés (2008).
In 1988, in Saint-Élie-de-Caxton, an eleven-year-old boy worries about his grandmother's life. Exhausted by illness, the ancient storyteller tries to convince her grandson that Death no longer exists.