Kyla's situation seems a bit too mysterious at times.
Her troubles seem lessened as she bonds with the unusual mother-son duo. There are thankfully lighter scenes that show the love in the dysfunctional family and their ability to have fun especially as they are joined by a mysterious neighbour across the street, Kyla, who seems to have her own troubles. While the catharsis might seem too much, every one of those scenes works well because of the great talent of director Xavier Dolan and his equally talented cast. Most films would have only a few such scenes, maybe only one at the climactic finale. There are many explosive scenes which are cathartic. It would be very tempting to call this film a "kitchen sink drama". In a Montreal suburb, a single mother with financial and employment difficulties reunites with her violent teenage son who is being released from a detention centre. Kyla may find that she needs the Després as much as they need her. Kyla is a high school teacher on sabbatical as she deals with her own emotional issues, which are manifested in stuttering whenever she feels incapable of dealing with her life. The second and more important is Kyla, who lives across the street with her husband Patrick and their adolescent daughter, they who are in transit in their life to wherever Patrick's job will take them. The first is Paul, a lawyer, who does have that sexual interest in Die as he tries to help Steve through his legal problems. Their lives, both individually and as a family, are affected with the entrance of two of their neighbors. Despite they always yelling expletives at each other and Steve sometimes demonstrating those violent tendencies toward her, Die and Steve truly do love each other, his emotions which are sometimes manifested as an Oedipus complex especially as he seems to need her complete attention most specifically when it is being directed at possible male suitors. However, with this deinstitutionalization, she has to take care of him which means only being able to do home based work. She made this decision to deinstitutionalize him as she didn't like the alternative, sending him into more restrictive juvenile detention from which he would probably never be rehabilitated.
He was just kicked out of the latest in a long line of facilities for setting fire to the cafeteria, in turn injuring another boy.
She institutionalized him shortly following her husband's death due to Steve's attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and his violent outbursts. That bread-winning ability is affected when she makes the decision to remove her only offspring, fifteen year old Steve Després, from her previously imposed institutionalization, one step below juvenile detention. Considered white trash by many, Die does whatever she needs, including strutting her body in front of male employers who will look, to make an honest living. Forty-six year old Diane Després - "Die" - has been widowed for three years.
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